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COVER STORY PIZZA, CLAMS, BEER A D A BAN D The buddy system works well for the e partnerships with Colby roots. 10
FEATURES T H E SOWING ROAD Dean of Admi ions Parker Beverage cultivates relation hip in remote M aine and midtown Manhattan. 16
PLAY MATES Romanian director Cri tina Iov ita brings a new vision to the Colby stage. 7
DEPARTMENTS ALUM N I PROFILES
4 T H FLOOR EUST I S 2
STUDENT L I F E 28
PER I SCOPE 3
G I FTS & G RANTS 30
FROM T H E H I LL 4
PAG I N G PARENTS 32
FACULTY F I L E 22
MULES O N T H E MOVE 34
J aneen Reedy Adil ' 7 6
BOOKS & AUTHORS 26
A L UM N I AT LARGE 37
Sean McNamara '83
Barbara Starr Wolf '50
O B I TUARI ES 68 F I NA L P E R I O D 72
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Colby Volume 85
Number 1
Colb;.• Staff:
Colby's Foot Soldiers
Sally Baker cx�nmt•c ed1rnr J. Kenn Cool
This issue's tory ahout Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage'- travel during the fall
mwwging ediwr
recruiting season clarified for me why Colby is a srecial institution among the rantheon of
Brian Sreer an d1recror/Jesig11LT
small, liberal arr- colleges. It'� the shoes. That's right, hoes. Parker Beverage's shoes are a lot like him-unpretentious, comfort
K<ircn Oh '9l
able and durable. Parker works hard, so do his shoes. I would say they both have a lot of
designer
mile on them but Parker might take that the wrong way. And l wouldn't wish to imrly that
Marc Gla»
he's getting old-not after seeing him run the court and hit 15-foot turnaround jumrers
fllwwgrapher
again t guy� half his age in Colby's version of the NBA-Noontime Basketball Association. But the truth is Parker has covered a lot of miles. Hundred, of thousands of miles. On plane ,
Robert G1lleor1e
Alumni w Large .:diwr
in cars, on foot. Pick a town in America and he rrobably could tell you where the best-and
Stcrhen Collin' · 7-1
the worst-restaurants are. Tra\'eling with this guy is a delight. Not only is he plea ant
Marc Gia'" st.aff wmers
company, he's a walking, talking AAA almanac. But perhaps the quality that set Parker apart most clearly-and the quality that reflects a Colby mindset-is that he hare the credit for everything. Given the record numbers of
Aneste' FotiaJes '89 Eli:aheth Baker '97 conrrilniring wrirers
applications over the past fevv years and the wide rread acknowledgment that Colby is among the hottest schools in the country, Parker could justifiably gloat a little. Instead, he talks about the commitment of his admissions staff, the cooperation of helpful faculty, the
Administration:
William R. C ot ter, presiclenr: Peyton R. Helm, i·1ce pres1denc for deioelopmenc and al11m111 relarions: Earl H. Snmh, dean of ihe College: Susan Conant Cook '75, clirecror of alumni rdarions Alumni Council Executive Committee:
Ron Lupton '71, chair; Joanne WedJ el l Magyar '71, vice chair; Libby Corydon-Ar1cella '74: Arthur Brennan '68; J oh n Devine '78: Di a na Herrmann '80; Anne Hussey '80: Lou Richard;on McGinity '67; Lesli e Mitchell '80; Susan Jacoh;on Nester '88; David White '75 Cnlh)' is publ i shecl four times yearly
for the alumni, frienJs, parents of studenrs, senior;, fac ulty and staff of Colby Colle ge . AdJress correspondence to: Managing Editor. Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901- 841
surport of other administrative derartments. He ays recruiting is everybody' job and at Colby everybody does it. Anecdotes abound. There was the time a family visiting campus during a break period wanted to see a science laboratory, so a phy ical plant en1ployee walked them over to the building, let them in and showed them around the place. Similarly, when a prospective student and her parents stopped by the campus on a Sunday afternoon recently, they asked a Colby student for directions and she volunteered to give them a full tour. Admissions in the '90s is much more than recruiting, although efforts to attract superior students still drive the process. The men and women charged with filling each incoming class invest hundreds of hours on the road, on the telephone and in personal meetings with prospectiv students and parents telling the Colby story and cultivating relationships. Enormous energy is required to be rerpetually "on stage" while representing the College, and yet the folks in admissions seem like those Energizer bunnies on television-they just keep going and going. But the admissions officers would be the first to tell you that without the residence hall custodian and the grounds keepers and the scores of peorle working quietly behind the scenes, the enrollment numbers would look much different. As you read the article about recruiting keep this subtext in mind. And the next time you read or hear about Colby's success in admissions, remember all of the pairs of shoes it took to achieve it.
or e-mail to: mag@colby.edu
J. Kevin Cool Managing Editor, Colby
cov<.:r photo by Marc Glass
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Periscope Gleaned by De an Earl
Win Rate Up trong e\·idence of Cc)lh·\
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growing popularity is fnu d in a recent survey that
refures
an
outdated opinion that Colby often loses admission candidates head-to-head against top college competitors. The sun·ey sho\\'S that Colby takes 61 percent m direct competition with Bates, 29 percent 11·1th Bowdoin, 16
administrators ll'ho laid careful plans to ensure good Ccl!'1duct.
We Don't Stay Home
Web Weaving
the nation's colleoes and un11·ersities in tl1 percentage ,)f students studying abroad. A
The number ,)f 1·isitors to has increased dramatically o\·er
sun·ey by the Institute of Internat1onal Education
the past year. This 1·ear's use is 10 times that of th year before
;
with Middlebury, 71 percent
When Colby received 27 round-one early-decision applications la ·t year, most thought it was a record that would srand for a while. Not so. Admission dean Parker Beverage reports that this year's round-one action, which closed No\·ember 15, reaped 305 applicant , an astnni,hing new high. Round-one ED applica tions have nearly tripled since 1992, \\'hen 11 l 1Vere received. AnJ, cit thi writing, the number of regular admissions
numbers of students in study abroad programs, Colby ranks third among the top 15 undergraduate institutions with
Middlebury (14.6 percent) and Bowdoin (13.2 percent). The most popular destinations of all U.S. tudents studying abroad are, in order, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy,
Cornering the Market
It's hard to say how good it felt to avor December' 2-1 vicrory over Bowdoin in men's ice hockey. In recent years, the Polar Bears rarely have mer defeat in A I fond Arena.Better till, some player
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the 40th anniversary of the opening of the rink and, the next day, to duel in an alumni game. And we can be proud of the Colbv student fans who behaved them elves after a handful spoiled the match by repeatedly throwing objects on
Bar. ... Paul Machlin (mu ic) recently 1\·as inten·iewed by ABC ews ( ew York) regarding the collection of Fats Waller tapes that's been donated to Wesleyan. Paul has been doing some research and work on this collection. ... Associate Dean of Students Jan
English) has been named the 1995 recipient of the John C.
Arminio is co-author of a
Zacharis First Book Award for
research article in the January
her novel, Coconucs for the Saim
i sue of the Journal of Swdenr Personnel Adminisrrawrs . . . . Margaret Felton Viens '77 has
The award, funded by Emerson
been promoted from assi tant to associate director of annual gi\·ina....Karen Bourassa's
the be t debut book published by a Plough hares writer,
new title a manaoer of cheduling and fa ilities will
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alternating nnually between fiction and poetry. Last year's award for poetry went to Colby's Tony Hoagland for his work, Sweec Ruin.
match with Bowdoin.Salute
recalls rhar Gene laid the grnund ll'ork for the late Irving Suss in gi1·ing high \'isibility to drama at Colby.
Gene and l·)l)nored him at a
30 performance.
Salute Scholars A tip of the mortar boards to the four \1·inners of Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Awards, presented h· rhe local chapter and awarded on Family Weekend. They are Heide Girardin '97 (Jay, Maine), Noah Owen-Ashley '97 (Essex Junction, Vt.), Brigette Krant: '9 Cpringfield, l\!o.) and Emilie Archambeault '9 (Sunn ·\·ale, Calif.).
Moosecellaneous Gene Chadbourne of the physical plant department has uncovered the original plan, dated October 19, 1939, for the loop Hero weather \·ane atop Miller Library. It was dra1rn by the master architect for the Mayflo\\'er Hill campu , J.F. Larson, in a rhree-inch-to-one foot scale. heathed in copper, the finished \'ane is I
feet
wide and seven feet rail.... The Colby Museum of Art has
better identify her role to the folks who arrange the hundred
met the rigorous standard of
of special meetings and events that take place on campu every
Association of Museums. The
academic year.
the ice during the 1994 home
Literature, Emeritus, prompted the special recognition. !ark
dinner prior to the November
Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur
College and named for the college's first president, honors
occasion of hio -15th Culhy reunion ·ear.Mark Benbow ' Roberts Professor of English
communications, WMHB, the Echo, math and computer
has been named to the board of overseers of the State of Maine
(reviewed in Col b)•, April '95).
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Arts Depa rment, markm,; the
The department dedicated its recent production of Hamler to
To Name a Few
Debra Spark (visiting professor,
Perforn111w
hc)noreJ by the
Croaria and Indonesia. Most popular are pages for the library, admissions, alumni,
freshman class filed applica tions using the Internet.
top 15 are Bates (15.3 percenr),
Ah, Sweet Victory!
c,1untries, including Argentina,
tudie·.Se\·eral hundred candidates for the next
NE CAC colleges listed in the
yet another record.
applications appears headed for
wtth nearly half (4 percent) of the traffic from off campus. Folks ha\·e been looking in rom e\·ery state and 6 foreign
science, chemistr ·and religious
318 students, behind St. Olaf Cl'llege with 454 and Carleton wit 1 3 6. The only other
Mexico and Germany. Nation ally and at Colby, far more women students (63 percent) study abroad than men.
olhy's World Wide Web site
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ll'ith I .6 percent of its students enrolled in foreign programs, topped only by Carleton College, at 20.2. In actual
Admissions Smasher
Gene Jellison '51, directur ,,f
graduation, recently 11·a:
Colby is second among all of
published by The Chronicle of Hiaher Education shm1·s Colby,
with Hamilton and 72 percent with Connecticut College.
Drama Pioneer Feted dramatic' Cl[ c,)lhy for a rennJ shorrh· follo\1·ing his rn1·n
percent 11·1th Williams, 17
percent with Wesleyan, 7' percent with Trinity, :'.5 percent
H.
Smith from hi weekly campus newsletter , FYI
S[Udent leaders and lots of
accreditation by the American label will give the museum enhanced international credi bility and profe sional standing.
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C OLB Y
The Pope of Journalism by Sally Baker
T
he 1 995 Lovejoy Award
Newspapers Editor-in-Chief
recipient, Murray
Louis Ureneck, who chairs
Ke1npton, is among the finest
the American Society of
reporters and writers ever to
Newspaper Editors' New
work in the AIT1erican press.
Technology ComIT1ittee.
In a career panning more
that i honorable and con istent with what they do." Understand that, friend ay, and you understand why John Gotti would
Kempton's friends and
than five decades-IT1ostly as
felk1w journalists speak of
a reporter and columnist for
him with extraordinary
invite Kempton to the Ravenite Social Club to "The reason people
celebrate an acquittal, why
The New York Post and New
respect and were anxious to
respect him is that he's
York Newsda:v-Kempton
contribute thoughts for the
never forgotten how to
Snake" Persico' wife ent
has been renowned for his
informal remarks President
work," Neiusday Washington
Kempton flower on his
elegant style and thorough
Bill Cotter delivered at a
bureau chief Jim Tedman
75th birthday, or why he
going integrity, for mining
dinner for Kempton before
said. "If there's a big story,
was enraptured of Jean
important stories that others
the convocation.
he's there. And he has an
Harris but thought her
mobster Carmine "The
mis , for skewering windbags
shooting three bullets into
and charlatans and for
the Scar�dale Diet Doctor
sen·ing as a conscience of
wa� questionable. ("As
his profession.
Murray :aw it, two hots
But Kempton' \·ocational
into a cad are fine, the third
kills account for only a
was overd,)ing it," ex
portion of the enthusiasm
plained Bob Liff, a friend
with \\'hich friend and
from Newsday.)
colleagues speak of him.
Mario Cuomo, then
They cite, too, his kindness
ew
York's governor, tired of
and generosity, particularly
being critici:ed in print by
to younger journali ts. "It's
Kempton and called
almost unthinkable for
Newsday columru t and
Murray to be unkind," said
1992 Lovejoy recipient
\\'riter D;wid Halberstam.
Sydney Schanberg. "What
"He has a great mind and a
can I do tO make Murray like me 1" the governor
\\'Onderful humanity." Kempton wa on campu in
twember to receive the
Lovejoy A ward and an honorary Colby degree and
Chris Davenport '95, a former
Newsday reporter
Newsday intern.
ta lks with l e g e n d a ry
Murray Kempt o n .
chanberg said, "Get
yourself indicted." The writing, though, i
uncanny ability for finding
"If journalism had an
asked.
the core of Kempton. "A 75-word sentence,
to deliver the 43rd Lovejoy
ecclesiastical hierarchy,
the small Storie , for finding
Addre s (see excerpt). He
Murray Kempton would be
details that others under
sinewy and ironic and demanding, is something
al o participated in a
the Pope," New York Times
pressures of daily deadlines
symposium on The Media
columnist Rus ell Baker said,
would miss."
and The Internet with
expressing succinctly a nearly
Asked what makes
industry-wide opinion.
everal members of the Lo\'ejoy Selection Commit tee, including Bill Kovach of
Kempton's columns so good,
"There is no one in journalism who has a more
newspaper reader seldom see," George Will wrote when Kempton received a
writer Calvin Trillin said,
Pulitzer Prize in 198 5 . "Some
"Murray writes not about
Kempton sentences, climbing
Harvard's Nieman Founda
detached, skeptical eye for
what people ay but about
a winding path up a pillar of
tion, Jane Healy of The
what i happening or a
how they behave. It's based
thought, must be read twice
Orlando Senrinel and William
deadlier wit in capturing
on the notion that people can
to be properly enjoyed. But
Hilliard, retired editor of
and di secting it. I wish we
find them elves in variou
why complain about a second
The Oregonian. The panel
could clone him," said
walks of life through no
sip of vintage claret?"
was moderated by As ociate
David Broder, a 'vVashington
particular fault of their own,
Professor of Government
Pose political columnist
even if the walk of life is
called "baroque." Many of
Anthony Corrado and also
who received the Lovejoy
contract killer. But then it's
his friends like to tell the
included Portland (Maine)
in 1 990.
up to them to behave in a way
story about the 1955 New
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His style has often been
York Supreme Court dec ision that make him the only l ibel-proof reporter in the country. The court ruled that a column he had written couldn't be libelous because it was "frequently c rypt ic in meaning, some times contrad ictory and only dubiously suggest ive of matter defaming plaintiff." The j udges claimed that if they couldn't under tand what he wrote, the plaintiff couldn't ei ther. Such Kempton lore abound . There's the rickety old three-speed bike on which the 78-year-old Kempton get around New York C i ty, his e er- pre ent three-p iece u i t in a blue j ean world, the in iahtful one- l iners that everyone loves to quote. ( Arriv ing late for a pre conference given by Ed Koch, News day' legend at in a chair that promptly col lapsed. "There' M u rray Kempton, break ing my furniture,' Koch aid. " I t's the people ' s furniture, Mr. M ay r," he repl ied . ) During the Lovejoy convocation, the self-depre cating Kempton was c i ted by Bill Cotter for hi manifest contribut ions to j ournalism. "You are, as you moro ely p u t it to your friend columni t J i m Dwyer, 'The Elder M u rray Kempton," Cotter said. "It i a mark of your unwarranted but tru l y felt mode t y that you find that M urray Kempton -with h i P u l i tzer, h i two George Polk awards, his National Book Award, h is Gra m my and hi memberhip in the American Academy of Art and Letters- i rr i t a t i ng. Fortu nately, the re t of us find h i m intellectually challenging, i n igh tfu l and even heroic . " +
In Praise of Reporters Below are excerpts from rhe Lovejoy Convocation speech by Murray Kempton, winner of the 1995 Lovejoy Award.
. .. It ha been said omewhere that the one e sential sentence in Holy Scripture i "Thy Will Be Done" and that all else is commentary. Our trade remains for me the story you cover, the bumps you take, the people you meet and the struggle to make en e of it all in the only way \.Ve can ever hope to make sense, which is by eeing, touching and sme l l i ng. All else is commentary. I have lately noticed not in my elf but in my bosses a tendency to think me too old to go around as I used to, and 1 find my elf lid ing further and further away from be ing a reporter and toward becoming a commentator and commenc ing to rely upon what's in my head, an under-populated premi e not enough d ifferent from Rush Limbaugh's as a re ource for public enlightenment and for the stimu lation of the self. All my l ife, when cal led upon to identify myself to the I n ternal Revenue Serv ice, the la t j udgment, I have preferred to enter not j ournalist, not columnist, not commentator, certainly not author, but s imply as "new paper reporter." And even now when my entitlement to make that quiet affi rmat ion seem to d i m in i h year by year, a newspaper reporter is as fervently all I want to be as it ever was. And o I am worse equipped than many of my predecessor in your Pantheon to talk to much purpose about the responsibility of the media for earning the tru t of the public. I t may or may not be parochial of me to sa) that I am b y no means certain that we reporter ought to worry all that much about the danger of ly ing to the publ ic. The public i , after all, an abstraction. We would far more erviceably take care not to lie to or about the people we are covering. For after all, if they can tru t u if not to be fair by the ir l ight at least not to l ie to them, we may not be correct about them-who can be assured of being correct about anyone else?-but we will not be false to them. When we go among human , we are unable to deal with them as abstract pre ences; thei r very faces command us to be honorable, and once you learn not to lie to a face, you're pretty ecure from the peril of lying to the general i ty of the faceles . I have lately been commissioned to rev iew the two huge volumes of the Library of America's Reporting World War II, a compilat ion of the j ournalism from those days that seemed to its edi tor fittest to endure, although it would have lain forgotten still w ithout thei r curio ity and their i n itiative. What truck me most in these men and women was not j ust how magnificently they rose to the occasion but how much more they were able to learn than the i r edi tors at the home desk or their aud ience at far c iv i l ian remove. ... Of all this noble company, Ernie Pyle, whom I never had much chance to read at the time, rand above the re t because he most fully incarnated what a reporter ought to be. Pyle went again and again wherever the worst extremes waited, the unconscripted man bound by conscience to the comradeship of the conscripted and enduri ng by free will what they were compe lled to endure by neces ity. . . . N o reporter, however good, can avoid rea l izing that the novelist i s his better; but both know that the victim is in the end mo t of the story. S ince the victim is and probably w i l l ever be less and les able to come to us, the reporter who is worth his salt recognize that his one command ing duty is to go out himself and look for the victim. And that i why I so much fear that the futurist may be right and that in time to come the accountants will have had the i r way and the reporter w i l l lip into the category of surplus labor and affl iction to the profit margin.
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Pretty Flaky At printing time, Mayflower Hill wa in the midst of one of the snowiest winters in memory. Waterville received nearly three feet of
Fit For a King
snow by the time Colby broke for the holidays in mid-December. Shortly after students returned in early January, three more now
Due to a mechanical error that resulted from using text from a 1995 calendar, the date of Martin Luther King Jr. Day was incorrectly listed in the 1 996 Colby calendar. The College apologized to members of the community, and the mistake d id not impede a campus ce lebration of the K ing holiday. A program of gospel music, ongs for choir and a reading from Dr. King's "Letter From a Bi rmingham City J ail" were part of the observance on January 1 S in the Page Commons Room of the Student Union. Students in the Colby Sounds of Gospel group performed, as well as a community ch ir led by Professor of M usic Pau l Machlin. James Varner, a faculty member from the University of Maine and president of the Bangor Chapter of the NAACP, read from Dr. K ing's famous letter written wh i le he was in j ail in Alabama. Several members of the Colby community also participated in a King Day breakfast at the Muskie Center in Waterville.
storm in quick uccession dumped several more inches on the campus, creating snow p il es normally not een until late in the season. Fortunately, the snow was uncharacteristically dry, which made removing it less of a chore. Even so, Colby work crews seemed in a perpetual rate of catch-up. Alan Lewis, director of the physical plant, said that a pre-Christmas storm dropped so much snow so quickly that the 12-per on crew a signed to remove it needed reinforcements. The crew arrived to begin snow removal at 11 p.m., Lewis says, and were still attacking sidewalks and parking lots at 7 a.m. the next day. Lewis asked for volunteers from other phy ical plant departments to help and wa overwhelmed by the response. "Electrician , plumbers, carpenter , custodians, everybody was out there shoveling," he said. Lewis says that although the massive snow amounts are "nothing we haven't seen before" he is concerned that continued heavy snow may create problem . "If we keep getting snow like this we may run out of places to put it," he said.
Domestic Dramas Mark Greenwold, selected by three top modern art curators as the 1 995 winner of the Jere Abbott Emerging Artist Prize, exhib ited his works at the Colby M useum of Art from Novem ber 5 to December 2 9. Greenwold , a professor of art at SUNY Albany who is represented by the Phyllis Kind Gal lery in New York City, is known for his diminutive yet intricate paintings, which tum the depiction of fam i ly life on it ear. Greenwold's work, said Nan Rosenthal, con ultant in the Metropolitan Mu eum of Art's Department of 20th-Century Art, "includes a number of neo-surrealist domestic scenes of strife and psychological com plexity. It i small, impeccably crafted and h ighly imaginative.'' The Abbott Prize was established in 1 993 with funds from a bequest by Jere Abbott, the first associate d i rector of the Museum of Modem Art. It is given bienn ially by the Colby museum, and Greenwold is the second recipient.
S earching for Meaning
D
iversity has been a buzz word on college cam puses for years, but seldom does the word mean the same thing to different people. In an attempt to improve communication and enhance pol icy making, a steering group has been formed to build consensus on a defini tion of diversity. Led by Student Associa tion President Tom Ryan '96, psychological counselor J une Thornton-Marsh and Associate Dean of Residen tial Life Jan Arminio, the group hopes to overcome misunderstandings created by differing interpretation of d iversity, Ryan says. "It's a very ambiguous word," he said. " People have been upset in the past because when we talk about issues of diversity nobody agrees on what that means. For some it mean racial d i versity, for others it means religious or political diversity. It also can
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mean socio-economic d iversity. We would l ike to come up with a definition so there is some common understanding." Ryan says the group, composed of 18 students, tv.io faculty members and three staff members representing a broad cross-section of the campus, will work toward building a consensus, but will not impose a manifesto on the campus. "It would be pretty pompous of us to ay 'this is diversity at Colby.' We want to build understanding, not write a description." Colleges everywhere are .struggling w ith issues of d iversity, Ryan says. "It wa a common theme among all of the student presidents I met at the World Youth Conference [last summer in Korea]," he said. The steering group hopes to present its recommenda tion to the trustees at thei r April meeting, Ryan says.
Hamlet Unplugged "A younger generation blasted by the error and crimes of an older one"-that was the promotional l ine for the Performing Art at Colby's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which open ed at Unity College on November 29 before returning to Colby's Strider Theater for performances on November 30 and December 1 and 2 . The play was directed b y Richard Sewell, a member o f Colby's performing arts faculty and founder of the Theater at Monmouth. The performances were the culmination of a semester-long course for a dozen Colby students, 10 of whom played double roles while also helping as technicians and dressers. One of the production's goals, Sewel l said, was to explore ways that young actors can produce classical theater without the equipment and support crews that often render professional productions pro hibitively expensive.
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written by Sttlph�n Collins '74
W
hen Cri tina l ovita, a dark-eyed, h igh-voltage, 4 1 -year-old Roman ian play \\'right and d i rector, erved coffee to gue t in her faculty apartment, i t was an inky and opaque T urki h brew, boi led in a saucepan and flavored w i th three drops of Drambuie. Of hundred of cups of coffee ipped in a eme.rer, this wa the memorable one. And for a group of rerfom1ing art students, T urki h coffee, cla ical theater and improvi ation coaching were part f a ready d iet erved up in lovita's flat last fall. Jovita wa on Mayflower H i l l as guest d i rector of the Performing Arts at Colby production of Luigi Pirandello 1 92 1 play Six Characters in Search of an Authar. One of the top d i rector in the Roman ian nat ional theater, she came to the United rate in 1 993, and h i the lare t in a erie ofvi iting arti t who bring a world ofthearer experience ro Colby'· performing arts program. I n two month on campu , ·he built from cratch a production f Pirandel lo's pre-ab urdi t play, which i a· den e and complex a her fla\'ored T urkish coffee. A t the ame t ime he imprinted en the ca t of student her indomitable pirit and her passion � r theater and what he cal l it unique abil ity to tell the truth. The visiting artist program in performing art ha been in place omewhat informally for a number of year but didn't become a regu lar departmental feature unt i l 1 994, accord ing to Robert McArthur, dean of facu l ty and vice pre ident for academic affa irs. Before that the College h i red a variety of d i rectors, de igner anJ theater coaches for pecific project and ometime fil led abbatical vacancie with profes ional , but, beca11se of a College-wide h iring freeze, cou ldn't fonnal ly acid a po i t ion. When a enior facul t member retired, the Perform ing Art Department got the green l ight to recruit two vi ittn artt t· each academic year, and l ovita wa the fir t for 1 99 5 -96. In January, Pamela cofield, the econd visit i ng arti t thi year, wa in residence <le ign ing co tumes for the Steven ondheim musical Into the Woods. he is a long-time New York co t u me designer who has worked for the G rammy Awards presentation at Rad to City Mu ic Hall and for recent Colby production of The Bacchae and Dreamcaicher. La t year' vi tting arti t were co t ume de igner Henri Ewa kio and children's playwright and d i rector Claire DeCoster, who took a Colby troupe on tour to about 20 e lementary and m iddle chool- with her play \Vhar I'm Not. Ewaskio, another N ew York-ba ed
Visiting Artists Bring New
Vision to
Colby
Stage
Visiting director Cristina Jovita shared her passion for theater and her compelling personal e:xperiences with stu dents wherever possible : at left , in her apartment teaching improvisational techniques to April Armstrong '98; below , with cast members at a rehearsal; facing page , discussing acting with Laura Eichelberger ' 99 over a cup of coffee .
designer who works for Jim Henson Producti ns, did costumes and ma ks for What I'm Noc and for Mocher Courage and Her Children.
"I t's an incred ible infusion of energy to our program every t ime i t happens," said Jim Thurston, the adj unct assistant professor of performing arts who directs scene and l ighting design. "They shake the place up and they give us a lot of construct ive feedbac k . " T h e y a lso a l low a s m a l l department to cover a w i d e range o f performing arts s k i l l s in t h e c o u r e ofa student's four-year stay a t Colby. Last fal l , for ex ample, the faculty agreed that students in the future would benefit most from a vo ice coach-someone who could help with proj ect ion, breathing and even, perhaps, d ia lects. "We can't afford to h i re new fac u l ty, but with t h is posit ion we can h i t those needs over a period of t ime," Thurston said. The position works well, says Assoc iate Professor J oylynn W ing, chair of performing arts, because it bring working theater professional from N ew York, Los An geles and London to Waterville. "Between the Colby in London program and a steady stream of visiting artists, we're end ing our students into the world and we're bringing the world to our students." "We think a l iberal arts training is the be t you can get for a career in theater," she said. "Theater is com munication. That's rhe u rge; that' the creative in stinc t . " But effect ive communication requ ires the broad understanding of both the material being pert rmed and i t context , W ing says. Knowing Shakespeare' l i terature , not j ust h is line , inform the craft, a does knowledge of internat ional i sues and phi losophy and the aesthet i c apprec iation one m ight get in the art department. " M . F . A . program are look ing for a range of experience," he said. Colby's program al o give tudents lots of opportu niti s to perform, accord ing to W ing. "At a conserva-
tory you m ight work in fou r or five plays in four years. It's very compe t i t ive. At Colby you can do 20 plays, you can wri te, you can d i rec t . " Fac u l t y benefit as wel l , he says. "I have colleague who talk about lecturing to 500 tudents, and they're kind of sour on i t . Here, we get to kn w the k id and then follow them for year after they graduate. To get to know the kids is the greate t," W ing said . For the fall of 1 995, the department dec ided to recru it a director for the Pirande llo play. Thur ton explained that the performing arts facu l ty selec t plays that repre ent a particular genre within the department' plan of a broad four-year program. There were more than 1 00 applicants for the eight-week posit ion, and four finali t were invited to campu for interviews. As part of the evaluation they were asked to teach improvisation classes. This brought srudent into the selection process and exposed them to four outstanding talents from the world of profe s ional theater. The four fina list incl uded a South African woman who had worked with playwright A thol Fugard, a d irector from Los Angeles who was di rec ting soap opera and situ a t ion comed ies for network televi ion and an African-American playwright from New York City. Even the elec t ion process was educational for performing arts student , W ing says, as they worked and d ined with these experi enced professionals and heard about their experiences, good and bad, in the theater. Jovi ta u l timately was cho en, in part because of her experience as a top d irector in Romanian nat ional theater and as the founder of an independent company, the Chamber Theater Ensemble in Bucharest. She also was d i t ingui bed by her success since coming to Boston, where she won the "be t play of the year" award at the 1 99 3 Emerson Playwrights Festival and d irected The Merchant of Venice at The
P u b l i c k Theater, anJ bcca u;c ,he came ll' i t h a Jeer i nt e rest i n and u ndersta n d i n g of P1ra nLl e l lu and h i s r u : : l i n g layers of m<l ke - be l i e,·e a n d rea l i t y , o f maob and
n a t u ral i s m . But i t "·a.; her ras:,ion, ,· i ta l ity and
intensity that sec u reJ h er the rn, i t i L1n anJ ,ubse quen t l y maJc an ind e l ih l e mark on the >tudents and fac u l ty members who ll'orked ll' i t h her. [ o,·ira's c l ass i c a l tra i n ing and her SL l i iLI fl lllnJati llll in the Commedia
dt?ll' Arre
form gave
o l hy studenb
opport u n i t i es the\' m ight nnt , 1therll'ise ge t , >ays ] l1sh c h arback
'9 ' .
11·ho p layed the pi n1ra l rnle
Llf
the
f a ther i n Six Characrers . " I t \\'�b gre at to get a Ll i fferent ,·iewro i n t . " Benmd th<' tec h n i c1I theater experi e n c e , thl1ugh, student> cl rnnk 1 11 l o 1 · i ra \ ra,:,.ion for the theater and ll'ere mesmeri :ed by her t a l e s of a c t i ng , d i rec t i ng and day- w-Llay l i 1· i ng i n Co m m u n i s t and pnst-Co m m u n i,t Roma n i a . ".'\s a n art i s t , ,1,; a h u man being, we j ust l n 1 · ed her," _ h a rback ,a iLI . "We had a l'ery keen c e r1:,orsh 1 p [ i n R,1m a n i a] , " k w i ta expla i n ed I l l a � l a i n e P u b l i c R a d i o 1 nt en· iell' i n
"Under •
c o m m unism t h eate r was the last refu ge,
it
was
the
ll' h i c h she pro moted the CnlbY rrnd u c t1on and tal ked abn u t her l i fe and ll'ork i n E u rnre . '' I ' l l g i 1·e ynu an examf'le of ;1 pl ay that c o u l d n ' t get appro,·;1[ w get i n tn rrod u c t i on �lacbcr/1 ; because 1 t dealt ,,·nh po11·er and espec i a l l y 11· 1 t h 11·omen t ak i ng rower. The d i c ta tor's 11·ife ll'as the' prob l e m i n this c ase . ":-\ n old a c tor from one of my prod u c t illm told m e , 'Lnnk-make s u re you do snmethi ng outrnge,,us on stage , l i k e ha,·e a \\'Oman t a k i n g oft h e r c lothes. Then they
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r i c k n n t h a t a n d \'LlU c a n fin a l l y 1· 1eld a n d s a y , "Ok<w. I g 1 l'e i t u r . " Then t h e rol i t i c a l c o n t e n t 11· 1 l l rass. ' A n d that 11·as abso l u te l y true , " she s a i d . T h e CL1m m u n 1 s t Parry suc ceeded i n crea t i ng a fau x arr c u l t u re rh at was dom i n a ted b · propagand a . l m· i r c1 :,a i d . An d, as a graduate of the rre>t igious F i l m and Theater Academy of B ucharest nnd a d i rector i n ,· nrinus state and nat 1Lm al theater comra n i e s , she adm i ts to ha,· ing sen·ed that rroraganda c u l t ure. " We had to teach i t , " she s ai d. " B u r u nder com m u n i:>111," she s a i d , " t heater ll'as t h e las t refuge f o r artists L 1f a l l k i nds. Desr ite the rropagnnda :md censors h i p , i t 11·,is the only place you could grnpple I I ' 1 t h the tru t h . because the n u mber nf people ynu reached ll'a · .;o sma l l .
\XI e 11·ere con nnced ll'e had
rn presen·e honor through the arts. I c a n say 11·e haC: a good l i fe beca u,e of rh<1t; i t 11·as a
great s p i r i t u a l at mosphere-11·e had some t h i n g rn fi ght against. " The material citmosphere 11·as .;om e t h rng
lse. of c o u r-;e, and ne i t her the s p i r i t u a l nor
the materi al 1n1rld i m rro,·ed much i n the pnst-com m u n i .; r era. "They're J U >t second- ran k
on ly place
Com m u n i � t who ll'an t Weste rn money . " she s ai d of t h e po>t-Ceaucescu reg i me . :-\ I I th e
yo u co uld
feast. U n l i ke /\ meri c ans ll'ho work a t other j oh;; ll'hde p u r, u rng a c a reer i n theater. " I n
grapple with the
t a l k i <; p u re demagoguery-and norhing 11·orb . " l m · i r a told o f keeping c h i c kens i n h e r s m a l l apartme n t , rn 1 s i ng t h e m for an infrequent Roman 1 <1 )'l'U c a n ' t b e a wai tre-;s in t h e dayt i m e , " �he s a i d . Da,· i d S �' i rn '99 s<1iJ her a c c o u n t s nf l i fe in e a s t e rn E u rnpe 11·ere p a r t of II' hat he le arned from ll'ork i ng ll' ith l,1,· i t a . "You can read Time maga: i n e , ynu c a n read The
hristian
Science � 1nniror. hut the stories she tel l s abnut Rt�m a n i a are J u;,t i n c red i b l e , " he said . .After hearing holl' she and her h ushnnd part i c i pan'Ll 1 11 the on:rthrow of the Com m u n i s t > i n the late J 9
O- and ho11· brutal
I ife 11·as and snl l i, there, S pi ro s a i d , " S t u ff l i ke that k i d s in the
U . . j u · t c an't fa thom. We take so m u c h for gra n ted . " l t i m<1 tely, though, it 1\·as h e r concern f or h e r student,, both i n t h e theater a n d i n their personal l i ,·es, that endeared l o\' i t a to cast member, and 1ther st udents she met at CL1lby. evera l student s maintain a steady corre;,pondence w i th her and ha1·e been to Boston tL1 meet her son <1nd her h u ,band , .Adrian, a Ph . D. rnndidate in m ath at Boston U n i\'ers i ty . A nd
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h e n R i c hard
of the first seme;,ter,
ell' e l l a n d Perf o rm i ng .Art, at Colby prod u c ed Hamler m th
end
p i ro drO\·e from Waten· i l l e to Boston in the w i n ter's first snOll'Storm
to pick up I Ol· i ta and bring he r to Mayfloll'er H i l l for t h e Fridny n igh t sholl'. "I gai ned a
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on H u b bard Bar 1-!arbc1r
77 a n d D o ug t\ l a flucci 78 o pe ne d a b 1 c ;·cle rell lal s h o p m
: l\ l:li nc . in 1 98 0 . It ,,·as �H u b b a rd said ITccrnl;. . · ] i ke c m c n ng
a marriage . ...\ happ y one . The i r l ; -year p a n n c rs h 1 p has resu l t e d 1 11 ,rn
c ll l re p rc n c u n a l port k• l i L1 L h a L L oda; 1 11 c l ucle s a restaurant a n d b re"· p u b .
commcrci,1 ! prnpe rt y a n d re a l e stat e d e , ·c l o p m en t . L i k e "·ise , j o h n l\ l i l le r
"86 says t h a t "·hen he a n d Kalie Col b e n ,..\] k n
"86 a n d t h ree o t h e r c l a ss mat es began t he l eg" o r k m L h e fal l o f 1 986 Lo L) p c n Pi==a O a s i s 1 1 1 P o n l a n cl , O re . . · · People r e p l a c e d m o n e y . T h e re \\·as a Je,·c]
(L1Ltlcl 1, 1 1 \\ l)rk togc t h n . That's h em· \\"(' nude
o r i m me d i a te L ru s l Lhal \\ " e
l L . he sai d . "" t h e " · h ol e fa m i ly ,,.L1 r k 1 11g. · ·
O t h e r Co l b y s m ,1 1 1 - b u s i n css p M L n e rs h 1 ps ,1] - L1 1-!usb,111cl and \\· 1 fc j l1th Da,·1s
Jun.' e n d ur e d k1 r yurs.
·16 a n d K,nen BrL1\\·n Da,·is "/6 gro\\· oyst e rs
and c l a m s at Bay,,· ,1 t c r . t h e i r :iqu<K U I L u rc farm on t h e \\ . ash i n gwn coast .
" 8 7 ,1 11 cl Teel
K e i t h D o n n e l lan ·s s . Tl1m Heyman ·s s . Ted Pappadopoulos \\.,nrcn
"88. ,1 k a t h e l"lKk band Gl1 To Bl;i=es . n o t only ha,·e p e r fo rmed and
r e c L1 rc.lcd tL1gc L h c r b u L ] i ,·cd tL1ge t h c r for ; c a rs 1 11 t h e s,1 m e h ous e in Ph i l a de l p h 1,1-u n t i l l a t e bst s u m m e r " h r n Pappacl o p L1uk1us got married ( L o Jessica \ l or n s "l)(l) a n d rno,·ccl o u t . T rymg t l1 p i n cll1\\·n "·h y SL1 rn c Cl1lby p.m n e rs h 1 p s t h riYe 1 l i ke t rymg lO
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e p J am kwc . Q ua ! J ues o f l e a rn i n g. \\"O r k i n g ,md gro\\ing toge t h e r a re
fostered or d i -cL1"crecl al C ol by . b u t t h e p recise o rigi n s of t h e relationships
t h a t l e d t o success ful p a rt n e rsh i p
and a rt istic collabora t i o ns-o n l y a
s a m p l i n g or \\"hi ch arc fea t u red h e re-are l ess i m port a n t t h a n the e 1w i r o n
m e n t t h a t n u rt ur e d them . The happy m i xt u re of stimulated s t u clell l s , opport u n i t ies f o r aclvemure a n d t h e c o n n de n c e LO r i sk fai l ure t h a t p ro d u c e s c l ll r e pre n e u r i a l teammates ma>· be the besL evidence yet that Colby
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A
couple of years after gradua
thinks "maybe that's the common thing
t ion, Jon Hubbard and Doug
in the Colby min<l."
Maffucc i, sharing an apartment
Hubbard says his and Maffucci's
in Portland, Maine, made "a fairly
projects, not always financ ially succe s
conscious decision" to do some kind
fu l, have created tension from time to
of business together based on things
ti me, but he thinks perspective for the
they enjoyed, outdoor ac tivities es
long range gets the partnership through.
pec ially. "We wanted
l i ve in
"It took me a long while to accept the fact
M a ine," said Hubbard. "The ques
that he was I talian," Hubbard jokes. "I
to
tion wa , how can we make a l iv
make l ight of that, but i t's important to
ing ?" Avid cyc l ists, they opted for a
have a sense of humor. " And, he said,
bicycle rental bu iness in Bar Har
"Part of what's essential, in busine s or in
bor becau e of the to\\'n's quality of
personal life, is a sense of trust. Not
l ife. Six or even years later they sold
everything's going to go your way. You
out-"You get tale in a bu iness
need an open mind , you need to be willing
after a t i me," Hubbard said-moved
to l isten, be open to give and take, try it
into real estate, opened The Lompoc
and see how it goe . You may not agree on
Cafe in 1 989 and two years later got
everything, but keep in mind that you're
the capital to begin producing Bar
in this together for the long run."
Harbor Real Ale to supply the
Even though they weren't thinking
Lompoc and to sell whole ale. From a
opportunities, to learning about what you
of fami lies back when they started out,
one-barrel, 3 1 -gallon -a-day beginning,
could do. I had friends who e families were
both married about the same time in the
the Atlantic Brewing Co. has expanded
in business on a grander cheme. That
mid '80s and , says Maffucc i , understood
and this year will produce about 50,000
opened me to people and the world," he
each other's changes. They agree that Bar
gallons of both aged and fre h ale . I t's a small, h igh-tech operation, says
said. "At Colby we understood that it
Harbor, a mal l town with a cosmopolitan
could happen."
summer population, turned out to be a
Maffucc i , but it produces a lot of beer.
"Having an education, you can do
great place to raise a family, too. " I 'd
The ir sel l i ng season is May 1 to New
research," said Hubbard, an adminis
go back to the serendipity speech,"
Year's Day, and they make aged ales be
trative sc ience major, remembering
Hubbard said. "Follow things that are
tween February and May, so even though
how they moved from the bicycle
good in business and marriage both.
i t's a slower paced business in the w inter
business into the restaurant and brew
The m ind is new and fre h and ac
it's year-round. They "can't make enough
pub. "You're open to ideas, to what
t ive." He c i tes the bottle business
beer in the summer," Maffucci says, and
ideas might work where you're lo
they've developed as a spin-offfrom
have to rely on the aged ales to carry them
cated. Others here are intell igent
the brewery. Maffucci
through "an insatiable demand . " A l
but maybe a bit . . . provincial ? We
collaborated w i th Colby j unior
though their beer is sold around t h e coun
d idn't invent the brew pub," he
try, half is sold right on Mount Desert
said, "but we could see its impor
Island, keeping their marketing costs low.
tance, and we made it happen."
" I t's l ike an old milk route, very per onal,"
A l l colleges have their
sure that their fermentations
Maffucci said. The pub, re taurant and
legends, but i t's doubtful that
are free of contaminants.
brewery together employ about 30 people
many have institu t ional ized
Moffitt, under the guidance
at the ummer peak , which Maffucci calls
the concept of serend ipity as
of As ociate Profe or ofBiol
"a n ice business, a nice scale." Despite a
Colby d id with Pre ident Rob
ogy Frank Fekete, set up a
phenomenal growth rate in the brew pub
ert Strider's talk to generations
te ting laboratory at the brew
market, their aim is to stay only wi thin
of entering classe : you go to
ery and taught H ubbard and
the tate, he say , d iscounting "the Ameri
the library, look for a book and
Maffucci procedure for con
can drive to make 'em bigger and better.
stumble across another book
ducting the te ts themselve .
ays they
Tom Moffitt on a J an Plan project to te t for impurities in yea t strains from Europe and to en,
The whole point of the industry is that i t's
that leads you to your life'swork.
"It's a real practical thing,"
fresh and local . It's proof that you can
Hubbard says he can ' t recall
said Maffucci, a history major,
make a good local beer, a true beer."
whether he actually ever heard
anticipating refre hing biol
President Strider's "serendipity
ogy lab skills he'd learned at
Maffucci feels that he and Hubbard cou ld take the plunge on their bike rental and other enterpri es together because Colby "wa
peech," but he knows that ev erybody knew it, and he
Colby. "l really think mall business allows you to pursue a breadth of knowledge."
I
dealing O\·er eas aga in, J oth a y , but
didn't have a clue when I left Colby
to reach marketable ize, "They look at you
what I was going to do," said Karen
and ay, 'Yeah, right."' Startino ·mall and
their main focu continue to be "j u t
Davi , who shares the aquaculture work of Baywater, I nc . , with her husband, Jo th.
without partner , they put theirown money
p1ecino careers rogether."
into the business, got it incorporated in
Their farm in Hood Canal adjacent to the
1 989 and had their first marketable crop in
Olympic Pen insula is 40 m inutes from
the spring of 1 99 1 . Initially they sold mo t
their house on Bainbridge Island, a Se
of their product in J apan.
attle suburb with a population of20,000-
A their three kid grow up--"smell
and a far cry from her homewwn of anra
ing like oyster ," aid Karen- he is stay
G
o To Bla:e , a Ph iladelph ia-based band who took the ir name from their 1 988 vinyl record of that title,
have m ixed country, rockabilly and blue music in three CDs. E\'en though they're
Fe, N . M . A partnership that began as a
ing c loser to home and al o working as a
all doing day jobs to keep body and ·oul
marriage currently manages a busine
mediator in di\'orce and cu tody cases.
together (one of the original member ,
Even as she does all of Baywater's book
Chris Homer ' 5, left the band for a fu ll
Joth Davi worked ummers on a
keeping and taxes, he c l a ims that her
time teaching job in 1 989 ) , "I t's a real
Fisher's Island, N .Y . oyster farm while
M . B . A . from the Un iversity ofConnecti
pur u ing an M.A. at Yale, and he knew he
cut isn't being u ed very much. But today
that grow about 2 50,000 oysters a year.
eriou thing," according to lead gu itarist and vocalist Tom Heyman.
wanted to be his own boss and to be near
the busine s is about to add a third crop,
"Love, Lu t and Trouble," their second
the water. He also learned the biology of
a huge c lam cal led a goeduck ( pro
record, appeared on Skyranch, a French
shellfi h culture and did genetic research
nounced "gooeyduck") that is used in
label, followed in
on how to grow c lams and oy ters to
sushi in J apan and in Asian res
marker ize fa ter. By chromosome ma
taurants in this count ry.
nipulation, Joth makes the animals un
They would l i ke to ex-
able to reproduce, and the result i more
pand the company,
and better tasting meat.
growing more ani
The business is hard work. Twice a
mal
eptember 1 994 by
and , possibly,
week at low tide he walks or goes by boat to pull up the three and-a-half-foot by two -fo o t bag
of
clams. On a l i tt le cart he take them back to a working table and
orts,
c o u n t , tags, i n voices and puts them in a cooler for the 3 5 -minute boat ridetoSeattle, where everything is sold. With two low tide everyday, he' work ing half the year at night with a head lamp. Karen call it "great fun," although he admits he' "not big on the m iddle of the n ight. I prefer to do that kind of work in the summer." ln the pring and summer she "seed out" the mall oy ter or c lams into hel l bags and places the
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' Doug Maffucci and Jon Hubb� (opposite page) have been bu�ess partners since 1 980. Karen (above) orking and joth Oa\iS (left) enjo for themselves-and with each other.
onto growing racks.
Karen say that when banks see people looking to finance oyster farms, which are easily swept away in high ·eas or tainted by red tide in the 1 8 months it take an oyster 13
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knockoffs of Lou Reed and Gordon Lightfoot and others, Heyman say , which they're sell ing in the State
themsel ves to cut out
the m iddlemen. "For years we've been do-
got a l i t t le buzz going with 'Anytime . . . Anywhere . ' We're till moving for ward." The buzz -which intenified when one of the ir songs recently was inc luded in a Melrose Place epi sode-hasn't led yet
to
offer from a
major label , but when Atlantic napped up Ea t Side's top act, a vacu um was of American ie that we chose not to chase."
Blaze will he East Side's priority for the
In 1 988, after Heyman and Don n e l l a n " c u rr i e d back to Waterville for a while" to regroup
( " ! think there' a certain mellow ness to being in Maine," "Anytime . . . Anywhere" on East
aid
ide
Donnellan ) , they migrated to Washing
Digital. That record also was picked up
ton, D.C., "out of convenience," accord
by a German label and netted the band
ing
to
created, and Donne llan think Go To
Heyman, "because it's better than
"a hell ofa deal," said Keith Donne Ilan
central Maine for a band." When they got
a tour of witzerland, Germany and Hol
their fir t record deal soon after, Heyman
land last August . Go To Blazes al o
said to himself, "We can do this."
next year and that the majors will look again at what the label is doing.
J
ohn Miller says that although most of the Pizza Oasi
founders were h is
friends at Colby, he didn't even meet
Katie Colbert A llen until three weeks
before graduation. Allen says she knew only one of the group of five when they were at Colby. A native of Abington, Mass., she wanted to ee the We t Coast
toured the State in support of "Any
Donnel lan remembers a t i me when
time . . . Anywhere," performing in Chi
he and Heyman and Ted Warren were
up in Berkeley, Calif. From there, everal
cago, Cleveland, Minneapoli , an Fran
l i v ing together in Washington and com
Colby people "with a mutual past" got in
ci co and other c i ties. "We d id well for
mut ing toge ther to work w i th the same
a car and drove up to Portland, where
them. We sold the five thousand records
con tru c r ion company. " D r i v ing to
they hared a cheap apartment.
they'd hoped we'd sell," aid Donnellan.
Maryland, we aw j ust a little bit too
M i ller, who majored in economics at
The band members, who began play
much of each other," he said. But,
Colby, was del ivering pizza part time
the su mmer after graduation and ended
ing in their teens and shared musical
Heyman sa id, "Ba · ically we l ike what
when, he say , it suddenly occurred to
rastes formed on Aerosmith and other
we're doing, and the fact that we're
him, "I can do thi my elf."
'70s group , played together or were in
friends makes it work . We were friends
Allen says he believes they took a
competingbandsat Colby. "There weren't
before we did it. We're doing good stuff.
chance starting the restaurant becau e of
very many of them, and we were in them,"
Be lief in that keeps you going."
Heyman
aid. "We j ust were friends. "
Go To Blazes has made vi nyl 45
their imilar background and similar out looks. "Colby people took life a bit more seriously," said Allen, an Engli h major.
Three o f the four were English major , but
singles for col lector ' market and ha
the exception, biology major Donnellan,
two ong each on the soundtracks of
"Education to them is a valuable thing and
aid, " I 've lived with Tom Heyman al
three fi l ms, including a oon-to-be-re
provide a certain trong foundation, a base togoon. l t give you a real enseofsecurity."
most a long a ! lived with my parent ."
leased oundtrack record for Kill the Moon
That' becau e he and Heyman alway
lighr. For the German company they re
shared "a imilar world v iew, a certain
cently recorded "And Other Crime ,"
in her partner hip-the exodu of three
cynicism about . . . you name it . . . the lice
mo tly acoust ic, ob cure cover songs,
of the original five owner , the sale of the
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When A l len reflects on the change
original restaurant and the new place
"Katie and I have figured out how to
pendence enhances the value she places
with a new name, Oasis Cafe-she real
do the dance. We get along very well,"
on her relationships with neighbors and
izes that she had no idea what an educa
said M i ller. In January of 1 988 he and
her talks with customers, and even if
tion she was in for when the business
A l len bought a second restaurant, M i l ler
things go poorly, she says, she can't blame
started. She was "twenty-two and naive,"
taking over the original store and A l len
anybody else. "There's qu ite a lot of pride
she says, and through inexperience made
taking the new. When M i l ler became a
in doing the work. You put a hundred and
mistakes in managing employees and in
vegan and would consume no animal
ten percent of yourself into it," she said.
planning. Eight years later, she is aston
food or dairy products, working w ith
"It really does give you a sense of being
ished to find herself managing a thriving
cheese and pepperoni became difficult.
able to determine your own future." But
business. "College kids who didn't want
He sold his store, opening his ownhealth
she
to wear a suit now employ twenty-five
food restaurant for a year and also produc
double-edged sword. She can take time
people and have a health plan," she said.
ing a whole-wheat cheeseless pizza that
off when she needs it, she says, but if
"It j ust amazes me that we provide health
didn't take off owing to a limited market.
people quit or get sick, she has to take
and paid vacations and a viable way for
Fitting in back at tl1e Oasis Cafe was hard,
over. The business inevitably offers dis
people to make a l ittle bit of money. It's
he says. He became an investing partner,
couragements, the frustration
nice to see the results of a kind of whim."
with A l len the managing partner.
broke, the down time in February, the
ees the flexibility of her job as a
of being
Throughout the changes in the Oa
need to lean on next month's money to
sis Cafe venture, the Colby tributaries
pay bills. She and M i l ler also talk about
continued to flow. Amy Vander Vliet '86
hiring a manager so she can start a family,
joined the staff. Through friends offriends,
but with her husband struggling to make
Allen met and married M ichael Allen
a career as a writer and their income
'86, whom she says she didn't know at
irregular, it's tough to plan a budget, she
school. A biochemistry major at Colby
says, and she wonders if she can afford the
and fledgling writer, Michael does some
move. "In my grumpy moments, I think
of the bookkeeping for Oasis Cafe.
sell ! But," Katie said, " I don't want to give
"It'
strange how l ife works
up the independence."
out," said Katie. "If I 'd
Of course, nothing is forever. The
followed my plan
independence common to all of these Colby
travel, go to grad
partnerships have even emboldened M iller
school and b e
to leave Oasis Cafe for veterinary school in
come a professor
Colorado in the fall, although he will re
! wouldn't have the life
tain his interest in the business. Even
I have. I had no c lue that start-
though he'd always wanted to be a veteri
ing a business would introduce me to the man I married. I t's pretty neat." Katie likes working for herself. lnde-
narian, M iller says, he took no science courses at Colby and before hi "family" business venture with Katie and his other enterprises, he would not have had the cour age to try vet school. "I've already started two other businesses," M iller said, "and both failed, but l 've learned a lot. I don't regret any ofthis. It's a whole other college educa
@)
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tion. Neither of us left Colby thinking
to Blazes band
members, from left, Keith
we were going to be
Donnellan, Tom Heyman, Ted
restaurant owners.
Warren, and Ted Pappadopolos
There were o t h e r
have played together since their
dreams-and hope
ColJ:>y days, but Oasis Cafe owners Katie Allen and john Miller
fully it's easier to ful
(right)
fill them now." +
barely knew each other in college.
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Success in Admissions Begins in a Thousand Places One Student at a Time I n many ways, Madawaska H i g h School and Trin ity School could not be further apart. The former i s a p u b l i c com m u n ity school in a s m a l l , northern M a i n e m i l l town along the ban ks of the S t . J o h n R i v e r . The latter i s a private preparatory school i n an upscale n e i g h borhood on New York City ' s U p per West Side. The Madawaska school i s a rectan足 g u l a r , blond brick b u i ld i n g s u rrou nded by a gravel park i n g lot; T r i n i ty ' s g ray stone edifice could p a s s f o r a n other fas h i onable apartment b u i ld足 i n g on its tree-lined street were it not for the school name e n g raved above the entrance. Madawaska ' s athletic teams play on fields that offer panoramic views of southern New B r u n swick; Trin ity tea m s play
Route 1 1 is a hard road. I t swoop anJ wirls, rises quickly, hottoms out. Every 1
on artifi c i a l t u rf on the roof of their b u i l d i n g . B ut these two schools have one t h i n g in common. Both supply C o l by with top students.
m iles or so you meet a car, or, more often, a
I n the span of a few weeks last fa l l , Dean of Admissions and
logging truck, teetering ominous l y a rounJ a
F i n a n c i a l Aid Parker Beverage v i s ited Madawaska and Trinity, as well
comer or over the crest of a hill as it fights the momentum of i t load, straddl ing the center l ine. l ntersper d along the h ighway ' s path berween Bangor a n d t h e Canad i an border are a sprinkling of outposts j ust b ig
a s several other schools i n Aroostook Cou nty a n d i n New York, d u r i n g trips t h a t showcased the c h a l lenges a n d successes o f C o l b y ' s recruit足 i n g efforts. How does the Col lege attract sons and daug hters of r u ra l M a i ners as w e l l a s c h i ldren o f Wa l l Street executives? Spend a few days on the road with Beverage a n d you beg i n to see.
enough to warrant pot on the map--Sherman
ration, Knowles Comer, Winterv ille.
I t is fair to suppose that Route 11 is not on the it inerary of most col lege admission represen tative . And i t certai n l y is not the kind of road upon which one wou ld expect to encounter the dean of ad m is ion from a top- 2 0 col lege. Un less that dean is Parker Be,1erage. Beverage ha been nav igati ng the route for many years to vi it h igh schools in sma l l horJer com m u n i t ies i n ex treme northern Ma ine. Far from considering uch journeys hardship J u ry , he look forward to them, hecause at t h e other e n d o f t h a t long road a r e talented, hard足 working students who may be memhers of a future Colby c l ass. Beverage's three-day swing through northern Maine i n c l uded stop in Fort Kent, Fort Fairfield, Lime rone, Carihou, Pre que Isle, H o u l ton and Madawask a . After an early morning stop at Bangor his fir t day out, he began the long drive up Route 1 1 , catching an occasional g l i m pse of Mount Katahd in, i ts head i n the cloud . Three hours into the journey, he topped in Ash land to refuel and eat. Opt ion were l i m i ted; in fac t, there was only one-L i l ' , a quare, squat road ide cafe
urrounded by mud-caked pickups. Beverage ordered the
pec i a l ty,
hepherd's pie, and let the waitress talk h i m i nro a bowl of Grape N u ts pudd ing for dessert. He enjoyed the reverie of the m idday crowd, mo tly men in hallcap
with insignias of
agricultura l companie . "The people in this part of the country are wonderfu l , " he said after getting bac k on the road. 'They're real l y a l t of the eart h . " T h e remainder of t h e d a y w a s consumed hy a v i i t to Fort K e n t , where both teacher Owen R. Haley
'58 and the guidance counselor, Garland Caron, have strong Colby connection .
Caron sent two daughter , Vickie '8 and Kellie '92 , to Colby, and H aley' daughter Kristen i s a fir t-year tudent, fol lowing the path of her ister, Laurie
'87. Beverage sat in Caron' office
as Haley leaned in the cl orway and the three men chatted casually. "Kristen loves it down there," aid Haley. " eem l ike all of the students we end you do wel l ."
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Fort Kent h a s prov ided C olh y several outstand i ng st udents i n recent y e a r , includ ing Ka t h i e Ptll)ler '94, ll'h o is c u rr ent l y s t ud y in g med i c i ne at J oh ns Hopk ins U n i \· rsi ty , and Tra c i M arqu i s '9 2 , llll11· a student at Dartmouth mecl ical sdh)OI. Be\·e rn g e says t h i s pl 1 i n t s o u t why statistics do not a lw a y s indicate t h e q u al i ty
c if
Colhy's
rel a t io nsh i p w ith a p art i c u l ar h i gh schoo l . "fort Kent is a g(1nd example of a s c h oo l where ll'e may only get one or tll'O stuclenr :: every couple o f yea rs. B u t u su a l l y th e y are n u mber one L) r n u m her
two in the i r c lass , " he said. It was late in the afternoon ll'hen the \· i s i t 11 · a s c o mplet e d , and
I ndeed, he n e \ · e r fa i led tll 'quee:e in tL) h 1 , re m a rk s <lt
An Hl,tnnk
County -; ch o ols the fac t that I 0 i ll the [.'<ht I 3 Cl 1 l h1· \·,1 lccl i c t 1 1n;m' ha \·e
heen frlllTI
M a i ne .
Oft e n , Be1·erage "1ys, a \ ' i :, i t tn t h e e < 1 m 11u.; rea " u r e ' /\. !a 1 n e
Cl 1 \hy i:- <I> u n11re tent i l 1U, d' t h c 1· <lrc. muthcr t if a c u rrent fir, t- 1· e, i r s t u d en t ; 1 p pro a ched Be1·ernge and wkl h i m t h<H ,he k nt'11 Cl ilh· 11 . i ' 't udent> anLI the i r parent.; t ha t
A t Pre:,q ue b l e H igh Sc h,1L 1 l , t h e
the p la c e f or he r cb ugh ter ll' hen, d ur i ng a c1m1'u' \' i , 1 t , thc1· 'l'I 1t rL·cl Be\·ernge :,ll'eep i ng t h e sicle11·alk
in (n H1t llf [ h e Lunder HL 1 u ,c . "Th<tl
ohrn,·ed m e 11 · ha r k i nd of a f1 l ac e C l ll hy i:,," ,he ><l icl.
Be\·erage drm·e to Madall'aska to spend the n ighr. H e d i n ed 1 n
A, he clnn-e rast porntll field, <ll1cl harc l :, C rahHe (. 1rm' ( l n t h e
Edmundsto n , Madall'aska's si s ter c i ty acrnss the ri\·er, p i c ked up < 1
t h i rd clay u f h i s nllrthern /\. !;1 1ne t t i u r . Be1·erage m u l l e d the 'e1N l 1 n·
p i n t of B e n
& J erry 's i c e c ream at BL1h's
e i ghburhl)llll S t ore and
sett led in at his rnom at the Ga tell'ay Motel to ll'atch a Mariners and I nd i ans play o ff ga m e .
,ubject of cost ancl st u d e nt , ' a h i l i ty to p a '" "\'(/e h ; 1\ · e m.icle com m i [m ent ttl � Lt ine stuclent' ;111,I /\. la i ne fa m i l ie,," he ' a i d.
re c o g n i : e that many uf the s t udent> fn1111 t h i s are<I ll' i l l ri:q u 1 re
The next day's i t i nerary w a s nw re t y p i c a l -f o u r schuols a l llng
40 m i les of the border, begin n i ng i n Mada ll'ask a
fin;1 11c i<1 l a i d . l \\'an t them tn k n o ll ' th<lt C nl h y c a n m ; 1 k e it l"L l " i b l e for t h e m t l 1 a t tend. I t \ i m purt.rnt rh;ir t h e\
and end i ng in L i mestone. At a l l of the :,choo l s , guidance counselors spenr a fell' m in ures catch i ng up on ne w d e \· e l op m e nts at Cnlhy, then a handfu l of students gathered tl1 I isren to B e\ · e r age. H e gave a genera l m·en·iell' of the Col lege , describing n e w constru c tion projects l i ke the Olin
c ience Center, talk i ng a b ou t fa c u l t y and
their rapport ll' ith students and touching b r i efl y on e xtracu rr i c u lar a c t i v i t ies and o ff- cam r u:: oppL)rt u n i t ie,. At the Ma ine Sc l1llOl L i _:: c i e nc e and Mathematics in L i mestone, a magnet oclwl1l for the state's most gifted students, Be\'t"rage held an engaging co1wersat iLm ll'ith e i ght .; t u dent5 w h o a semhled hapha:ardl y i n , on a n d around c la ·sroL1m desks. AmLm,g t h e group 11'<1> A l icia
ears, a
,1
"V./i:
1 5 - y e a r - n l d s e 1 i n r from
A lexander. N ic ho l as Watson, an early dec i sion app l i c ant from B a r Harb l1 r, m i d Be \· e rn ge that h e chos e Col b y because of i t · ewm1 m i c s fac u l ty. These students, hecm1se o f th e i r acceo:, to advanced pl a c eme n t c o u rseo and an e 11 1 · i
ronment that \·alues academic achie\·emen t , a r e h ighly o u g h t after, Be\·erage s a y . I f Clll hy can establish a foothold here, he >ay:,, the school could be com e a v a l u ab le Sllurce of stu
rew.i..: n i:e rh,11 Culby is nnt nut L1l their re;Kh
The central message does not change whether in remote Maine or midtown Manhattan. "Colby is the same place regardless of where the students coming in have grown up."
dents for C o l b y i n [he fut u re . M a i ne students are a m ac t i l ' e t o C ol b y
bec1u't' L lf fin;mc ial Cl1ns ider<H ion"" T y f1 ic a l l y . h i.!.!h ,chL1llb re c e i \·e
ch i:em
uf
c l 1l l eg c a d m 1 ,, inn r epres e n t ,H i \· e , m th e fa l l 11·hen 'en illr' ;1re mak i ng t h e i r c lwicc' ah\ l u t
11· h ere
to ap p l y . A11ro i n t m e n t s ; 1re schetl u l ed
11· e l l in a d 1 ·;1 11 c e and .; t u d e n t s are n L 1 t i fied hy
the ' C h t h l l <lhl 1 u t a represe n t a t i 1·c\ \' i s i t . Of t e n , C l l u n ,e lo rs d i -; c u ss pmt i c u LH c u l lcgc' ll' i t h
the st u d e n t :, tl1 h e l f' them nmroll' the ,cnpe \lf t he i r se1rc h . B u t i ne\· i t a h \ y S L lln e 't udc·nt'
shll11· u 11 to hear a hou t a Cl1l lege t h e ,· knn,1· \' i r t u a l h· nt1th ing about Llr, 1n1r,e, h <1 \ · e nu i n t e n t i L m l1f ,1ttend ing. It h.i1'r1ened tll B c \· t· r
39 ' t u dent ' <ll1.;\\'ered the c a l l t ll hear �lhl 1 U t C 1 l h" O h\ 1<lge at P re ,c 1 u e \ , l e , 11·here
L 1 u s l )' , Be1·erage says, se1 · e ra l llf th em 11·ere j Ll ' t
f1a.;:,ing t 1 1n e . '"\X/hen )'llll ' re t a l k i n g tu th i 1 w -fi\· e m f o rty students i n a c l \ ' e rn o u s a ud i tori um n1u knl111·
the re are at le as t a fell' ll'hl1 are th e re hernu:,e the\''re .t•e t r i ng n ut L)f c lass. And you c e r t a i n h· k1w11· that ll' ith a g roup that large, i Li l l L 1f them ,1 11 pl ied tn Cl1 l b 1· man)' nf them 1rnukl nL1t get i n . Sn it's a chall enge f o r a n adm i:,s1on L1fficer tll
hole! f o rth , h e p rnfess il 1nal and Sta)' fnc u:,eLI
f\lr
ll'h i l e u the 'ame t i me enduring the d i,tr<1c
everal rea on , Be\·erage �ay-. "They h a ,· e an u ncom m o n ll'urk
t 1 c1m from the students ll'ho rea l \ · aren't
there to hear ynu," he said.
ethic," he s a i d . " I f y ou compare · t udents fro m rural Maine ,chtlOI,
B e\·e r ag e p r efe rs a sma l l gro u p . "If \'L1 u ' re see i n g une student u r
w i t h students who have attended good prep schools. the M a ine
m a y b e t 11 'L l s tuclents, i t c a n be a \'Cry enj uya b l e expe r i e n c e , pmt i c u
stud e n ts pro b ab ly w i l l srart a l i t t l e beh ind, h u t they :,non c a t c h uf'
l a r l \' i f i t is a bri g h t , seriou s l y i n tere:,ted st u d e nt . Y o u rnn a l nH bt
b e ca u e they work so hard. Our facu l t y lo\·e teac h i ng /\. ! a i n e
conduct an i n t e n · ie 11· to l e a rn about t h e i r i nt e rests. I l i k e the
students. T h e Maine k ids a l o b r i n g a l i fe expe rience and a bac k
ground t ha t is a m a rked con tra. t to students c o m i ng from urban area or from other part of rhe country .
groups be t ll ' e e n s i x and ten ll' i t h a Cl1 u p le of j un iors and a fe11·
sen i ors," he s a i d .
o t he y contribute tll th e
Be\'ernge dec ided t o conduct Lme l a s t b i t of busi ness before
education of their fel low students ju t by be i n g there a nd sharing
he a d i n g h a c k tu Waten· i l le . He p u l l ed m·e r a t a roadside stand 11·here
that experience w i th o t her . "
a local far m er mis s e l l i n g f'ntatoes- 1 f o r a ! O-r1nund bag. H e
Beverage i tuden t
co ncern e d rhat
o l by no[ be v i e ll ' ed by Maine
as eliti t . One of [he ll'ays he tries to avoid such a
characteri za t i on is b y des cr i b i ng e x pe r ience s of rec ent Col by gra d u
ate from smal l . rural M a i ne towns, l ike F o r t Kent's Pooler. "It's great fun to mention to t he Ma i ne k i d how s ucc e ssfu l M a i n e k ids have been at Co lby, " he aid. "The e storie do res nate, and tudent b e g in to ee them e lves as fol lowi ng i n those foom e ps. "
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bo ught
t11·0 bags . lmded t h e m in t h e trunk a nd turned t h e car . o u t h .
" [ re ;1 l l y enj o y n w t ri r s up here , " he s a i d . " A n d I ht1 r e i t sars som e t h i ng abo u t C ol by that ll 'e continue to \ ' i si t these schools a nd m a i n t a i n our re lationsh i ps here. T h ey' re i m p rtant to us. " Three ll'eeks after h i s trek to north e rn Maine, B e l' erag e boarded a commuter p l an e i n Portland for a
9 - m i n u te fl ight ro LaGuard ia
A i 111ort. H i s th re e - d a y \· is i t to Ne11· York 1rnuld i n c l ude ome of
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lvlanhar ra n \ m1 1'r 1·enernhle ;mJ pre:, [ i !.!inu' prq1<1rarory ,chl 1l 1b a-, 11·el l as <I hanclful ,1f p u h l ic -;choob in rhe ll'e ll -hecleJ :-.uhurh, nf \V'e:-. rche,rer
C, Hln [\'.
hn[el-acn1:,:, rhe srreer frnm S rn t i u n-a t 7 u ' c l l K k the next m,i rn i ng. He gra b hed < I b age l and a c u p of cnfree frum a streer 1·end1 1r tll fortify h 1 1melf fl1r rlw Be\'erage 11-.1s uur rhe docir of hi,
G rn n J Cent1«i l
l ln t' - h c iur, 30- bluck hike ro the 'ichoob on the U pper East Side. Sidell'al b l i ned with trencly hou r ique.; and ethnic res t a u ra m ' hu:-.r led 11·i rh hrisk - wa l k i ng uffice 11•orken, ll' h i le clel i 1· e r y rruch compe reJ 11· irh irnparient rnxis for 8 wedge of c urh space.
Be 1· e rn ge has h e e n
w Nell'
York a r lea�r a do:en t i mes on rec ru i t i ng j unket,, hur rhe c i ry s t i l l
early Jec i .;ion ?" �he a:>kecl. ( Again thi� year, Colhy 5et a new record for
exci tes h is seme,, he say,. " T h e J i1·ersi ry here i , >ll a m a : i n g , " he s<1 id a :-.
early dec ision appl ican ts with
460. )
he stro lled p a s t an outcloor p n 1 d u c e market h e i n g rended hy rwn A s i a n
Beverage c learl y is mme than a rec ru i ter. He cou nsel students
men . " Y o u rnulJ 11·alk i n tu a n y one of rhese shops and prnbably hear
about the col lege selecrion process in an <ilmost fatherly way. He
half a do:en languag s be i ng spoken."
bel ieves i r is the best method for ensuring that students who apply to Colby are d o i ng so for the righ t reasons. "They have to determ ine
The c i ty's cosmnpu l i ra n character affects the srudenrs i ts scl10,1l produce as well as his approach in m<lrketing the c,1l lege. he s<iyo. "The
whether they would b happy at Colby, and I want rhem to have the
srudenrs h e re <ire 1·cry world ly," Beverage S<l i d . "l often talk abnur
i nformation to make that dec ision before they ap�1ly," he said. "The last
Colhy's global perspec r i 1·e heca u -;e many of rhese sru den t� may already
t h i ng we want is to bring a student to Colby and have their experience
ha1·e been to Europe, fo r example, and they are look ing for nell'
he u nh<ippy . It olw inu,ly io; nut good for the student and i t's not good
opportu n i ties ro expand on what they have experienced. I ' l l r a l k a b i t
for Colby."
more abo u t J a n Plan i n ternsh ips. s t u d e n r research opport u n i r ies <lnd Colby's f oreign study progra ms."
to m <i i nt a i n i ng Colby's presence in t h e New York area, w h i c h com
H e noted , however, that the central mes ·age does nut change
m<inds attent ion from the nation's top colleges and universi ties. Some
Relationsh ips with counselor and school administrators are cruci a l
1 50 or more college represen
whether in remote Maine or m idtown Manhattan. "Colby is the same
private New York schools are visi ted hy
p lace regardless of where the students com i ng i n have grown up. The
rat iveo. "As you can i magine, compe t i t ion for these students is q u i te
key for <in adm ission person is to be honest about portraying rhe
keen," Beverage sai d . " I f you don't have good relationships with the
srrengths of the Col lege-and i ts potential shortcom i ngs," he s<i i d .
counselors you run the risk of being overlookecl because there are so
As if u nderl i n i ng this aprroach, he poi nted out to studen ts a t h i s
many qual i ty schools send i ng peopl e . ''
first stop-T h e Brearley chool-that they should give serious consid
Beverage needn't worry. J udging from the reception of offi c i a l s ar
eration to the set t i ng where they will l i ve for the next four years.
schools throughout the c i ty, he i- among the most wel l- l iked college
" L i v i ng i n a rurn l <irea w i l l be a broadening experience for you-it's
representatives on rhe c ircu i t . A t The Chapin Schoo l , veteran college
hea u t i fu l and friendly and safe-but i t will be d i fferen t from what
counselor Louise Henderson-whooperates a su mmer camp in Maine
ox
was demonstrably del ighted to see Beverage and as ured h i m that this
game whenever you want, b u t i f you enjoy k i i ng, Sugarloaf is close by.
you 've grnwn u p w ith. I f you come to Colby you can't go to a Red
year's group of students was first rate. "This is the best c l ass we've had
So there are trade-offs you make depen d i ng on where you go ro col lege,"
i n fifteen years and you're see ing the best of the group," she aid.
he s a i d . H is <iudience, three eager young women, one of whom w<is
Six p l a i d - s k i rted girls j o i ned Henderson and Beverage i n the
drinking from a Colby mug, nodded d u tifu l ly but appeared to a l ready
wood-paneled s i tt i ng room beneath a portra i t of a former Chap i n
hal'e determ i ned th<it rural Maine was okay by the m . All of them had
head m i s tress. Henderson repeated l y end rsed Colby as Beverage
visited Colby and were i m pressed. Katherine, the one w i th the Colby
described i t . "The fac u l ty are excellent-very, very good," she em
mug, said her mother was gert ing t ired of mak ing college v is i ts so she
phasized. And when a student asked about the w i n ter, Hender on
figured i t was about time ro comnw. "What i s the deadline for applying
c h i m ed in, "Oh, you ' l l be so busy you won't even notice."
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if Collw 11·eren't a good sch o L 1l they 1wrn kln't recl1mmend i t tLl their students," he said.
-f r . m . Be1·erage h,1d Cl1 tnplered his first dily uf 1· i -; i r , , ,mll he A fe11· hnurs later, he ll'a' b<11.: k un the Li�t S ide fL1r d inner at Zucchern. an 1 t<llian re�taurant lnrnecl h· L i hl'y Cl1ry d L 1n -A p i c e l la '7-f and her hu�band, G i l 1 1·ann i A r 1 ce ll a . \Vhen the rn8i tre d' lea m ell their Be1·erage 11·as from Cn l h y , he prL1duced a glass nf an i .; e t te, c o mp l i ments nf the hou,e. /\ Liking -;uch .i c n nn c c t i l m i' a p leasan t hyrroducr l1fadm issinn tr;1\·el, a c corll ing rn B e 1·eragc . BY
begm1 the long 11·alk back to the hl1tel .
"When 11·e're L'n the road ll'e're representing Colby. nL1t j tN rhe A l l m·er rhe c i ty , Be\·ernge encountered old friends ;111x inus w
Ad mi .; sions Offi ce," he said. "We try
ro be ci mb a ssador> fLlr the Cl11le�e
deli\'er S[Udent<; for Colby. At The Col legiate _ chool-the oldest prep
1rhene1·er 11·e Gm . "
school in the country, founded in 1 6 3 2-Be\·erage \\'<l' SLlUired rhrnugh
D a y Tim 11·as a k1ng nne-11·i t h a 50-block w a l k rn t h e Uf'per \\'e,t S ide and fi1· e .;clwl1b t<> see and n<'t much time bet\\'een 1·i, 1ts. The
the halls by college counselor Bruce Bre i mer, \\'hl) couldn't srnr talk ing about a sen ior he said \\'Ould solw basketball coach Dick Whitml1re\
,1rrl1mtments ll'ere ,rac ked on c l\1.;ely that B e \· era fee cl1 u kln't >quee:e in
need for a point guard. "Great kid . . . super ll'ork eth ic . . . \' l) U 1n 1u ld
3 : 30, he h;lll \\'alked oe\·eral m i le, l'et11·een �c h < lclk his shoes ll'ere suakell anll h i ' c J, 1thes \\'ere d a mr. All part of the j nb, he s<1id. ··yllU h<we ro he a l unc h he<1k. By
<1 1 1 in i:1 ' te a dy llr i : : l e . H is n i i c e ll'i:1� fad ing,
10\·e this kid . . . he's such a ll'orker . . . Sl' l id student , " Breimer .;aill in a rapid-fire New York acc en t . And a ''sL)lid st u llent " at Col legiate
1 340-is a rri :ed student . Three
p rep <i red rn deal w i th i nc lement ll'eather. m i .;hap.; nf e\·ery de , c ripti l 1 n ,
Col leoiate student huddled 11·i t h Be\·erage I ll a tiny c lassroom. Tll'o nf
wh;1te1·er haf'pem. This is where experience c omes in handy. J ust ahnut
them mis ed the team bus and made spec ial tr,l\·el arrangement-; to
ewry t h i ng tl-18t cou ld happen to a person on the road has happened w
where the median
AT score is
me," Be\·erage said, chuckl ing. " l \·e gotten lost, gone to the llTlmg
thei r occer playoff game .o they could hear ;1bout Colb · The
schti ol , sr i l led things on my pants, you name it."
ightingale-Bamford . chool college counselor J oyce M i tchell,
who c a l l Be\·erage "one of my fm·orite peL)ple," a l -o ll'as e x c i ted about
On the final da · l,f his \·is i t , Be\·ernge drm·e out of the c i t\' tl1 the
the students she had to offer. "This is a oooll g ro up , " she sa ill . Then, in
I afy suburbs of Westche,rer Cl1 u nty. At Horace Greeley H igh Schot1l
a con p i rarorial whi per, she added, already dec ided on Colby . "
" ! think a couple of them h;1\·e
in
Chappciqu a , he ll'as met by Esther B igelow Gates ' 5 7 , the schoL1I'�
college c o unselor , 8nd 1·nlunteer J udy Corr, the mmher of Colby
he ll'as right. Senior J enny Tanenbaum,
who had recently returned from l'isit ing the Col lege, gushed about her
student M ichael Corr '98. Tll' o years 8go 11·hen Be\·erage 1·is i ted H\1race
experience. "l absolutely loved i t ," she told Bewrage. "It ll'as l ike thi�
G reeley, se1·en students e\ ' en tu 8 1 1y enrolled at Colby, the m,1st frnm any school th8t yeM. The turnout was good aga in this ti me; e ight
picture l had i n my mind about where [ ll'ant to be."
student s gathered w l isten.
M i tchell say Beverage, with whom he has ll'orked for nearly a decade, is a good example of an admission officer ll'ho puts students first. "\Xlhen
Be1-erage ll' rapped u p his N ell' York uir ll'i th an early afternoon
you connect with a representati\'e-like l dl with Parker-you both 1·ie11·
high school \·i s i t and 8 harried d r i \'e through rush hour traffic to
4:30
it as an educational proces rather than somebody trying to ell ·omething
LaGuardia i n time for a
to somebody else. We make decisions based on whether Colby would be
plane, he reflected on the trip.
tl i o ht home.
a good match for a tudent. We tru t each other.
because
e ttled i n h i
" ! re8l ly enjoy coming to
eat on the ell' York
1 ha\·e a lot of old friends here , and ci lso because it's such 8n
e xc i t i ng place to spend a few days. But even more than that, 1 enjoy
"Parker p u t the student i n the center. I know that when he works
talk i ng about Colby and meet ing these students, some of whom ll' i l l be
w i th my student he is looking out for them, not j ust for his insti t u t ion,"
walking around our campus next fol l . The real rewards from this \\'Ork
he said.
come when you help 8 student connect with Colby, and that connec
Beverage ay that while h is friendships with counselors are impor tant, Colby' cachet as an academic insti t u t ion undergirds each rela
t ion leads to a fulfi l l ing col lege experience for chem and, rea l l y , to a l i fe
tion hip. " I could be best friends with every counselor i n the c i ty , but
long relation h i p w i th Colby. I n a ense, t h i i ll'here i t a l l begin . " +
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F EBR UAR Y
1 996
COLBY
A Man for All Reasons By Sally Baker
A
·suc iate Professor nf Ph i l osophy Dan Cohen ' 7 5 S8)'S i t has taken a [ , mg t i m e to develop the cuur�e he w i l l help teach t h is spring. Four hundred years, to he exac t . " I t a l l s ta rted in 1 5 9 6 , " Cohen said. " R e n e Descartes was horn . " Cuhen a n d Professur J i m Flem i ng , t h e head o f Colhy's i n terd isc ipl i na ry Science and Technology S t ud ies program , dec ided two years ago th8t the Col lege needed to c e lehrate the 400th anni versary of Descartes' bi rth in some meaningfu l way. So, said F l e m i ng , "We're hav i ng an even t . " I n a spring- emester course that underscores Colby's com m i tment to c ross-d isc ip l i nary learn i ng, Cohen and Fle m i ng have combi ned a seminar and a colloq u i u m series in an a l l out exami n at ion o f Descartes' i n fl uence. Cal l ed Carte i a n
P
Legac ie::-, t h e program bri ng:, toge ther 1 8 mcm be rs of c,) l by's fac u l ty and three top Desc artes e xperts from other inst i t u t ion:, to ponder such subjects a:, d u a l ism in l i tera t u re , the m i nd-hody spl i t i n psychology and \\'hat i t means to he "mndern . " Students w i l l write r e earch papers on aspec ts of Des c artes' thought and par t i c i p a t e i n rec i tat ion sessions, and each l e c t u re w i l l be open to the p u b l i c . T h e co urse i:, re m i n iscent of an i nterd isc i p l i nary sem i nar on Thnmas A q u i nas that Cohen took as a student at Colby from Professor of Ph i losophy ( now Dean of Fac u l ty ) Bob M c A rt h u r. Cohen loved that course , "even though I find Thnmism d ry as d ust," he said. " Descartes i s one of the few fi gu res who begs for i n terd isc i p l i nary treatment beca use h i effe c t has been ac ross the c urric u l u m , "
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Cohen �aid. " I f you ask me 'Who was Descartes ?' I say he wa� <:1 great phi lnsopher. If you ask a mathemat i c i a n , he wa · a great mathema t i c ian. I f y o u a s k a p h y ic ist, he was one of the leaders of the sc ient ific revol u t ion." I n the course's planning stage, Flem i ng and Cohen recru i ted fac u l ty member� hy ask i ng them what d i ffere nce Descartes made-and contin ues to make-in their d i sc i p l i nes. As the person whose world-v iew sup plante.:l A r i totle's d u ring the Rena issanc e , De ·c artes is considered the father of modern thought. So , Cohen says, "we had no prohlem fi nd i ng peop le who cou ld talk about h i s infl uence." And both he and Flem i ng are anx ious to hear abo u t these other point of refere nce.
"I'm used to read i ng Descartes as a p h i losopher, and I read him with a sense of where he'- goi ng and wha t's happened to t h is d i s ussion in ph i losophy for the l ast f o u r h undred year ," Cohen said. " I t' often hard to k eep sight of the extraph i l o:,oph ical mot i vations that he had, h is connect ions to science, re l igion, pol i t ics and 8ll the other t h i ngs that were going on in h is l i fe that formed h i s thought. I hope the course w i l l give me a whole new per pective on the context in which Carte ian ph i losophy deve loped." Flem i ng ays he i i n terested in " p u t t i ng ph i losophy i n to conversa t ion w i t h all the e other d is c i p l ines." The value of the course for students, he says, is that "they ' l l see l o ts of i n te resti ng threads b u t they ' l l f i n d o n e to identify w i th and w i l l write a paper and see connect ions rather
Outdoor M arket
rofessor Thomas Tietenherg, i n a lect ure d uring Fal l Trustee Weekend i naugurati ng the M itc hell Fam i l y Professorship i n Economics, spoke on the value and l i m i tat ions of market- based approaches to environmental problems. " U i ng the market to protect the e n v i ronment has become al most a fad in U . S. po l i c y c irc les, and it has a l ready spread to La t i n A merica, Africa and the Far Eas t , " said Tom Tieten berg Tie tenherg, 8n i n terna tiona l l y recognized expert i n e n v i ronmental economic . " [ I t ] is c learly a n idea whose t i me has come." B u t i n some c i rc les, he added ,
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i n v i t ing i nd ustry to part i c i pate i n e n v i ronmental c l eanup " is treated as roughly a k i n to showing up w i t h the Dev i l for com m un ion." He sa id many ecologists b lame big busi nes for cau�ing env ironmental problems i n the fi rst place, and trus t i ng the pol l u ter · to solve those problems is for them "a form of ideological ·u i c id e . " E i ther ex treme-who lesa le adoption or rej ect ion o f market-based sol u tions-is i nadequate, T i e tenberg said. H e noted t h a t t re mendous strides h a v e b e e n ma le where regu l ators have approved programs that a l low one e n t i ty to transfer pol l u tion c red i ts to a nother. If a region is restricted to a fin i te n umber of pol l u t i on u n i ts , one company that does not use i ts fu l l a l lotment may sell i ts excess u n i ts. This proces can l ead to a red u c t i on i n pol l u t ion, i nce the n u mber of po l l u t ion u n i ts ava i l able may be red uced over
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P U N D IT S & P L A U D IT S Keeping It Together The referendum la t fall to decide whether Quebec would remain part of Canada created extracurricu lar ac t i v ity for Jane Mo s , Robert E. Diamond Profe or of Women' tudie and French, who became a frequent commentator for
ariou new organization . Mo s, one of the prem ier U . . academic expert
on
Quebec , was quoted in two nationwide Associated Pres tories, on Reuters Canadian wire International Herald Tribune.
about events in Quebec by CBS and Maine Public Radio.
J i m F l e m i n g a n d D a n Cohen '75 fou n d a special way to celebrate
Spinning Their Wheels
Desca rtes' b i rthday.
than di ciplinary spl itt ing
teaching as a career that thi
off. They are going to ee
i my life, thi is what I do,
connection between math
but I very rarely get to ee
and h istory, between
other people do it," Cohen
philosophy and environmen
said. " I t ' a treat to hear my
tal studies, between anthro pology and Engl ish." Remembering McArthur' em inar, Cohen adds that, a he did, student w i l l "get to
whom they haven' t had a
from the em inar with fre h idea for re earch projects
recalls the friendly compet i
and p rhap , too, with a more
t i o n t h a t developed among
interdi ciplinary outlook. ferment of knowledge
to embarra
throughout the curriculum, in ranee, oc iologi t puttina
he aid. "I think that may
more and more about
happen with the De canes
medical technologie into
aid. "The two ides were more will ing
then to negot iate than to manipulate the debate ." The drawn-out battle threatened to damage financial market if an agreement was not reached quickly, Thornton aid. "They're playing R u
ian roulette on an i
ue that is
tradi t ionally dealt with at elect ion t ime u ing ballot , '
he
said. "The Republ ican believe they have a mandate from the last elect ion and the president feels l ike he ha
a
mandate from hi elect ion. For this to be re o lved, there ha to be a compromise."
Changing Landscapes
o you m ight find, for
we got some great lectures, '
"It' an odd fact about
ional leader in 1 98 1 . " I t wa resolved without thi sort of b ig tandoff," he
"The idea is to ge t the
course. " Peop le didn't want
course, too."
rift between then-pre idem Ronald Reagan and congre -
the col loqu ia paper , perhap
chance to take cla e . He
themselve in
Thornton, a former taff member at the Federal Re erve , aid that the di agreement was more serious than a imilar
in an anthology. Fleming note that ome facu lty
front of the ir col leagues, so
the Boston Globe in a N ovember 14 art icle.
Fleming and Cohen are
member may come away
i -
tant Profe or of Economic Saranna Thornton '8 1 told
in e t igating ways to publ i h
hear a lot of Colby legend ,"
the fac u l ty of McArthur's
The budget impa e between Pre ident Cl inton and Congres was becoming a game of"Rus ian roulette," A
tar col league . "
popular professor from
ervice and in the
he al o wa interv iewed
A New York Times article
ovember 2 6 c i ted J ame M .
G i l lespie Profe sor o f A r t and American S tudies David Lubin as an influential voice in the recent reinterpretation of the work of 1 9th-century African-American painter
the ir cour e on death and
Robert S. Duncan on.
dying," he aid. +
Lubin, whose 1 993 book Picturing a Nation : Art and. Social Change in 1 9th Century America included a chapter about Duncan on, has helped engage art critics in a reevaluation
time, and it could be extended to inc lude wap and trades
of the land cape that prev iously were d i missed a second
among nations.
rate example of the Hudson R iver School of paint ing.
But T ietenberg, an early proponent of uch program , said they are no cure-all. "In ome way we were a bit naive in
Letter of Recommendation?
our a umption about how ea y implementation would be and how completely these system would produce cost av ings," he a id. "On the other hand, we underest imated
Hawthorne expert Pat Brancaccio, J ohn and Caroline Zacamy Profe sor of Engl ish, commented on the film The
Scarlet Letter for the Voice of America in November.
the impact they u l timate ly would have both in term of the number of pas ible app l icat ion and the degree to which
Brancaccio said that the fi lm, although wi ldly inaccurate in
they would tran form the regulatory y tern." Tietenberg' lecture wa delivered in the Colby Mu eum
drama" if taken on it own merits. It depiction of He ter and Dimme dale bore l i tt le resemblance to the character
of Art, and hi audience included College Tru tee Ed on V. M i tchell I l l '75, who e gift endowed the profes or hip
from the idea that it' a faithful repre entation it wa n't o
Tietenberg hold , and M itchell' parents, Helen and Ed on
bad. They changed everything but the names. "
its depiction
of colonial life, was 'not a bad co tume
in Hawthorne's book, he said, "but if you remo e your e lf
V. M i tchell J r . +
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1 9 9 6
C O L B Y
Making Math Count By J . Kevin Cool
T
om Berger says mo t
Perhap that's why he has
ret u rned aga in in 1 990 as
peop l e don't want
peop l e don't u nder
spent m u ch of h i s profes
d i rec tor of the evaluation
l i sten, they c a n ' t . The
to
stand math. Anybody who
sional ca reer trying to
u n i t . But for a l l h is adm inis
scale i s t oo l a rge. T h i ngs
has agoni:ed over the value
fig u re o u t the best way to
trative accompl ishments,
l i k e that [retreat] funda
of " x " knows what he
teach k id math.
Berger s t iII is happiest in
menta l l y c hange the
the c l assroom. And, in that
c h aracter of the fac u l ty
means. B u t that' not what he mean - .
Berger ha i m mersed him elf in v irtua l l y every
respect, he feels that
and c re a te an a t t i t u d e , a
a pect of math ed ucation,
coming to Colby i a re turn
fee l i ng, that makes C o l by
c i a t ion for m a t h beca use of
from developing materials
to his r )Ots.
the p lace it i . "
the w a y we teach i t , " a i d
for various c u rri c u l a to
"There is l i t t le appre
"! taught for a year at
Berger says that Colby is
e v a l u a t ing how federal
Tri n i ty [Co l l ege] early in
j ust what he expected-a
agenc i es determine grant
my c areer and i t wa a toss
hu mane p l ace where fac u l ty
rec ipients for new program
up whether I would go back
and tudent care about
" I ' m a rel a t i v e l a te-comer to
[ to M innesota] because I
their work and about each
education, but it's an
loved the m a l l college
other. "The fac u l t y here
intere t I 've had for a long
environment," said Berger,
rake teaching very eri
t i me," he said.
who did h is u ndergraduate
ously," he said . "This is not
study at Trinity. " l made
surprising because the
Berger has been involved in
the choice to go back
fac u l ty are close to their
the U n i versity of M innesota
beca use of the re earch I
Talented Youth M athemat
was doing at that time, but
S i nce the early 1 980s,
tudents. l have student coming i nto my office a l l
ics Program ( U MTYMP
most of my career has been
the t i me , work i ng next
affe c t ionately referred to as
a compromise. l a lways have
door, down the hal l
" u mpty-ump" ) , a program
wanted
there's a re lat ionshi p . "
for except iona l ly gifted
teac h i ng environmen t . "
m i d d le and h igh chool
to
be in this k ind of
H e concedes t h a t Colby
A personal ized environ ment i s part i c u l arly i mpor
students. The experience
is an adj ustment after 28
tant for math students,
led Berger to a deeper
years a t a spraw l ing u n iver-
Berger says, because the
i ty w i th 5 0 ,000 tudents,
u nderstand i ng and aware
work can be i n t i m idat ing
ne s of the shortcom i ngs in
b u t ays the d i fferences can
without a facu l ty mentor to
math education and
be u m med up in one
help. "Studies have hown
Berger, C o l b y 's new Carter
prompted his i nvolvement
word-s c a l e . "l had never
that tudent in calculus
Professor o f M a t h e m a t i c .
i n form u lat ing programs at
attended a fac u l ty retreat
begin a downward spiral when they're truggl i ng to
T o m Berger
"We p u t too m u c h empha
the national leve l . I n 1 988
u n t i l l came to Colby , "
s i s on c o m p u t a t i ona l
he took a leave of absence
Berger a i d . "They f1ew m e
u nderstand the material ,
mathem a t i c s , teach i ng
from U M to serve as
b a c k for t h e retreat l a t
and u n les they get help at
k i ds to t u rn the c ra n k . S o
program d i rector for teacher
s u m mer and l sat next to
that early stage they
what if you can solve
preparation and enhance
B i l l Cotter. He and Bob
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l ien" specie from Argentine ants to the mongoo e are deva rating indigenou Hawaiian flora and fauna and threatening the world' most pri tine evolut ionary laboratory, aid F. Rus ell Cole , Oak Profe or of Biological Sc ience , at the inaugural Oak Profes or hip lecture on October 2 7 . Cole , whose talk wa presented in conj unction with the annual convocation honoring Bixler and Dana Scholars, aid that plant and animals brought to Hawaii by m issionarie , merchant and tourist over the past few hundred years have wiped out many indigenous species unpre pared to deal with the di ease, predation and habitat de truction the foreign invader introduced. For example, Cole said, mosquito larvae brought to the island in water barrels by whaling vessel and dumped into local tream became e tablished and transmitted a new and viru lent di ease-avian pox-that has virtually destroyed the lowland bird population. In another case, he aid, feral pigs introduced by human and now e tab lished in the wild deva tate vast area of nati e gra ses . That allows hardier foreign plant pecie to proliferate and remO\ e habitat for indigenous fauna. Argentine ants, probably brought to Hawa i i by merchant r mil itary hips, are part icu larly destructive because they breed rapidly and devour defen eles local insects. The e voraciou eater are re ponsible for actually altering ecosystem where they reside by
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Charlie Bassett, Lee Family Profe o r o f English and
American Studies, Phyllis Mannocchi, as i tant profes or ofEngli h, and A ociate Profe or ofEngli h J ames Boylan were li ted as Colby "legend " in the 1 996 Insider's Guide to Colleges.. . . Tamae Prindle, associate professor of Ea t Asian tudies, erved a a panelist for the Japanese Women' Stud ies As ociation in 0 aka . . . . Nikky Singh, as ociate profe sor of re l igiou tudie , presented papers for the In titute of Common wealth and American Studie N ikki Singh and Engli h Language in My ore, India, and for the American Academy of Religion in Philadelphia . . . . Barbara Best, a sistant professor of biol ogy, presented a paper and chaired a panel for the Ameri can Soc iety of Zoologist in Washington, D.C. . . . J im Webb, a sistant professor of hisrory, has been named the fir t president of the Saharan Studies As oc iation . . . . Assi tant Profes or of Sociology and Anthropology David Nugent presented a paper and erved a a panelist for the American An thropological As ociation in Wa hington, D.C. . . . Paul Doss , assistant profe or of ge ology, was elected chair of the Comm i ttee on Geology and B a rba ra B est Public Policy at the recent national meeting of the Geological Soc iety of America in ew Orleans. . . . V i iting I n tructor of ociology and Anthropology Constantine Hriskos pre ented a paper for the American Anthropol gical Association in Washing ton, D. C. . . . Sandy Grande, instructor of education and human development, erved as a panel moderator for the American Educational Studie As oc iation in Cleveland. . . . Assistant Professor of Government Paul Ellenbogen presented a paper for the Southern Pol itical Sc ience As o c iat ion meeting in Tampa, Fla . . . . Mary Beth Mills, as i tant profe sor of sociology and anthropology, preented papers for the American Anthropologica l Associa tion in Washington, D.C. . . . J il l Gordon, a i tant profe or of philosophy, presented a paper for the Soc iety for An cient Greek phi losophy at Birmingham Univer ity . . . . V is iting A i tant Profes or of History Robert Lafleur presented a paper for a conference on 1 6th-century tudie in San Francisco . . . . Robert Nelson, assi tant profe sor and chair of geology, pre ented a paper for the Geological Society of America in New Orleans . . . . Charles Conover, a istant profe or of physic , pre ented a paper for the New England Section of APS at Bowdoin College. +
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endangering or extirpating nati \·e fauna, Cole aid . The combination of exotic predator and lo of habitat have far-reaching effect , he aid. "We are losing, on average, twenty specie per year [ in Hawa i i ] . Under normal c ircumstance the rate of extinction wou ld be about three or four pec ie per hundred years." If it continue unchecked, the lo of biodiver ity will deprive the world of it mo t extraordinary "living mu eum of evolution," according to Cole. He aid effort to top the degradation of Hawaii' fragile eco y tern incl ude carefully monitoring biological control experi ments, uch as the introduc t ion of predators to off: et the pre ence of other pecie who have no natural predators. He noted that the e experiment have backfired in the past becau e the control animal disre garded its intended food supply and selected an altemati e. For example, mongoo e introduced to control rat in ugar cane fields in tead entered the rain fore t and decimated the bird population.. "Research ha shown that these ecos tern are re i l ien.t if the de truc t ion is stopped," Cole aid. "We don't have a lot of time left to save the remain ing biodiversity of Hawaii. If we fa il, it may be the folly for which our descendant are lea t l ikely to forgive u . " The O a k Profe orship was establ ished in 1 993 by founder of the Oak Foundation, a private phi lanthropic organization devoted to educat ion and ocial ervice. +
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hen R ic h ard Da n i e l S tarrett confessed t o p o l i c e t h a t h e wa respon sihle f or a t1n�-year spree of k i dnapp i n g , rape and murder in Georg i a and S o u t h Caro l i na , one pe rson was s k e p t i c a l . Starrett\ mother, Gerr y , c o u l d n ' t bel i el'e t h a t h e r s o n was i nvol ved i n any c r i mes. After a l l , she m a i n t a i n e d , h e came f rn m a " perfect" a l l - A me r i c a n fam i ly . Gerry S tarre tt 's stance 11·ent deeper t han maternal love. Desp i te h e r son's c onfessi o n , the test imony of several of h is v i c t i m s and fu rther ev iJence u n covered by pol ice-and desp i te gen t l e prod d i ng from her h u band-she t urned away from rea l i ty . Her on was not g u i l ty , period . This, more t h a n the
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cri mes themselves or Danny Starre t t 's journey t h rough the legal system, l i es a t the heart of A S tranger in the
was arrested. '·She was ac t i ng I ike she a l most expec ted t h i ngs to t u rn out this way. It was a l most as if l had i n v i ted her out for a week end date and h a d j ust dropped hy to rick her u p . " The murder increased the
Fam il)' : A True S tar)' of M �crder, Madness , and Uncondirional Lo11e ( Pengu i n Books, 1 99 5 ) , t h e l a test hook from P u l i t:er Pri:e w i n ners S teven a i feh and Gregory W h i te S m i th ' 7 3 .
A Stranger in the Family is "a stunningly intimate portrait of a d iseased mind and a loving family's slow and painful d isintegration . " A S tranger i n the F a m i ly
intensity of the manh u nt f or Starre t t , and once he was captured h is con v i c t i on was a lmost a matter of course. But Gerry S tarrett mounted both a cos t l y legal battle and a public relat ions campaign i n her son' defense. How, she asked over and over, could a young man who was marr ied, the father of a 2year-old girl, and a former model ch i ld be a serial rap i -t and mu rdere r ? She m a i n ta ined that Danny's c h i l d hood odd i t i es-he was h yperactive, d isrupt ive in school , a verb a l b u l ly to his s i b l i ngs-had l a rge ly d isappeared once he became, in h i s preteen , a voracious reader. She said he had a bri l l iant m i nd and an ea y o i ng , a tt ractive per ona l i ty-hc had every t h i ng goi ng for h i m .
i s , as i ts j ac k e r c o p y a t tests, " a s t u n n i ng l y i n t i ma te portra i t of a d i se ased m i n d a n d t h e mov i ng s tory of a l o v i n g fam i l y's s low a n d p a i n fu l d is i ntegra t i o n . " T o u n d e rstand Danny S tarre t t , i t 's a l most e n o u g h to k n o w t h a t h e chose h is v i c t i ms by c ru i s i n g the c l assified ads. H e would call the advert i ser's number, and if a woman answered he wou l d then show up at her door hoping -he was both young and alone. If so, h e was l ik e l y to k idnap her, take her to h is home and rape h er. Even t u a l l y , S tarre t t m u rdered o n e o f h is 1· i c t i ms, a teenager named Jeannie M cCrea, whom he descri bed a a w i l l i ng hostage. "She d idn't fight back , " tarrett wrnte in a journa l after he
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One b y one, t h e other members of S tarret t's fam i l y were con v i nced o f h is gu i l t ( and h is mental i l l nes ) , and t hey pu l ied away from G e rry. Danny's fa ther w i th d rew emot iona l ly. The fa m i l y fe l l apart. Danny was sentenced to 10 l ife term . H is mother told a reporter that the experience had made her "fre e . " "'! h a v e d o n e everyt h i ng righ t , ' she expla i ned," write Na ifeh and S m i t h . ' " I h ave worked f orty hours a day, mak i ng sure that everything w i th th is fam i ly was perfect, and a l l of a sudden, none of i t make any d i fference . And so all that ffort, I now rea l i2e, j ust doesn't matter. And, i n a way, unJerstand i ng that h as set me free . " . "After [the] day [Danny was e n te-nced ] , " they write, "Gerry never worried abou t Danny again-at least not in the same way. She s t i l l h a d waki ng n ig h tmares abou t what might h a ppen if h e ran into 'some male three t i me his s i ze who was ra ised on the treets and d idn't share Danny's concept of reasoned d iscourse. ' B u t a t least the r e a l nightmare were gone, the one that had come in the m iddle of the n ight to ro i l her sleep, the ones i n w h i c h a c h i l d wandered i n to the p a t h of an onrush i ng car or tee tered on the edge of a great c l i ff wh i le she watched help less ly from a di ranee, unable to run to save h i m or c a l l o u t a warn i ng. " +
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ntil relatively recently, the study o f African history meant examin ing the exploits of Europeans in Africa. Introductory courses in the continent's past generally paid lip ervice to African kingdom that rose and fell even before the first Portuguese traders arrived in the 1 5 th century-and, one uspected, tho e kingdoms only got noticed becau e their organization paralleled that of Euro pean monarchies. The pattern of ordinary l ife across most of Africa were counted valueless or, at be t, lost in the mi t of preliteracy. The influence of Africans on Africans was left for anthropologists and archaeologists to sort out. Times have changed. But, as Associate Professor of History James L.A. Webb notes in h is newest book, Desert
Alan Taylor '77 William Cooper's Town Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Alfred A. K n o pf
Historian Alan Taylor ' 7 7 once again tum his deft hand to a portrait of a particular American place in a rollick i ng t ime. A he did in Liberty Men and Great Pro prietors (Univers i ty of North Carolina Press, 1990 ) , Taylor erves up an engros ing tale of entrepreneurship--and kulldug POWEM A?\0 PE-RSU/1.510" 0°" rut. tRO�TIER Of THF. F.AllLY gery-in the early United States. William Cooper, who came from A L A N TAY LO R humble, Pennsy lvania Quaker stock, learned a a young man how to manipulate political and economic c ircum tances to his own advantage. Di plac ing a ho t of more rightful owners, he assumed control of a large tract of land in New York and founded Cooper town, settling there with his family-including onJames Fenimore Cooper. William Cooper eventually became presiding judge and U.S. Congressman from Otsego County. J ames Fenimore Cooper chronicled his father' life and the settling of Otsego County in a novel, The Pioneers. Taylor u e quotations from The Pioneers to provide a loose framework for thi book, and they not only help put historical facts in a fa cinating second d imen ion ( we look at them from Taylor' viewpoint and from Jame Fenimore Cooper's), they coincidentally make the reader want to rev isit Natty Bumppo, Chingatchgook & Co. Taylor's exquisite attention to details of place, time and metaphorical setting make this book, winner of the 1995 New York H istorical Association Manuscript Award, read like a sprawling novel. M o t readers will be hooked from the first page and will hardly look up until the last. +
Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel , 1 600- 1 850 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1 995 ) , there still are time-honored "truths" about African history that can stand reconsideration. Webb's study describes the ways in which ecological change in a region of We t Africa called the ahel ( now largely con urned by the rapacious Sahara De ert) forced sahelian populations into new social and pol itical alliance and influenced their congress with North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and European trading stations on the coast of what is now Senegal. A the desert moved relentlessly southward sahelians who had urvived on farming and live tock herding found that they either had to move or to take up new economic Thanks to Webb's activities such as trading. Those book, another who moved ahead of the desert and into the savanna lands on its piece of African edge eventually merged with other history has been groups from the north and east. liberated from The new residents of the desert edge, who called themselves Eurocentrism and Whites to differentiate themselves returned to the from sub-Saharan black Africans, peoples of the establi hed trade links with North Africa and with the European continent. trader on the coast. Their communities were headed either by clerics or by warriors. The cleric-headed groups grew grain and other crops to trade for precious salt. The warriors captured hundreds of thousands of slaves for markets around the world. It shouldn't be controversial to write that the North African demand for black African slaves exceeded that of the Atlantic slave trade. It did. As Webb describes it, political violence spread through the sahel and southward, and black African slaves "poured" north, where the demand wa insat iable. In one horrible irony, he notes, the trade in laves for Arab-bred horses wa both brisk and symbiotic: the horses were needed for l ightning raids on v i llages, where children were scooped out of sorghum fields into bags and thrown onto the horses' backs, but they also were usceptible to a host of insect-borne d i eases and died in great numbers. So the sahel ian raiders needed more and more horses, which
meant acquiring increasing numbers of tradeable slaves. But, though Webb's conclusions are clearly supported, they may raise a few eyebrows in the Africanist communi ty . Until now, it was broadly assumed that the Atlantic lave trade accounted for most of the economic changes wrought in the sahel and sub-Saharan Africa from 1600-1850. European and American demand for slaves was supposed to be the key element in bu ilding new economic, soc ial and political systems in the regions. I t w as important, Webb says, but it was not determinant. That dubious d istinction is shared by ecology ( the desertification of the sahel) and by White activities in trading and warfare. Thanks to Webb's book, another piece of African history has been liberated from Eurocentrism and returned to the peoples of the continent. + --S.B.
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f t h i s rn n t i n u e s , Colhy may neeJ tl l urgan i :e an a l u mn i c h apter in Rus�i<1 . T h i , y e a r , for the fi r�t t i me i n the schoo l 's h i �tnr y , t h ree fu l l - t i m e ,tudent , i n c l u d i n g tll'O degree candidates-from the f ormer
So\· iet U n ion are matr i c u lci t ing at Colhy . F i rs t - year s t udent� G r i gl 1ry Pctn l\' and A nya Denisova, as we l l a� sen i or exchange �tudent Fyodor h u m i lo\·, are helping t 1 educate the i r A merican c o u nt eq:iarts and l e a rn i ng <1 hou t a J i ffe rent c u l t u re . Pctrn\', from Moscm\·, and Den i son1 , from Crimea, U k ra i ne , bo t h plan to �tudy m Cu l h y f\1r f o u r years and go on to grad uate sc ho\l l . Petrov learned ahn u t Col hy from a da taha!>e of i n terna t ional c o l leges and se lected it because of i ts h i g h l y acc l a i med Econo m i c s Departme n t . H e had , pen t two week, in the U n i ted tates a t age 1 3 , t i me enough, he says, " to fig ure o u t t h a t th is i� the place I want to !>tudy . " Den i sn\'a , w h o s t u d i ed for two years at the Taft c hool in C o nnect i c u t , spent a summer in Colhy' ESL
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prngrnm and ' l l lo\'ed t h e Col lege that she " m o\'cd hem·en and e a r t h " tll enro l l , a c curd ing t o A!>!>OC iatc Prnfe,Sl)r of R u ,,iiln She i la � 1 c Ca rthy. "I looked < l t l lt h e r c u l l eg e� . hut Colhy a l w< 1 y s \\'<1' m y fi r' t c h u i c e , " Dcnism«1 � a i d . S h u m i lo\' i� an exch ange 'tudcnt f1\ 1m S t . Peter�hur.g U n 1 \·cr, i ty 1rn1j rn i ng i n Serhu-Crna t i a n l i tera t ure and L1ngL1<1ge . H e ; 1 bo i � a repmter for the l'' >pular St. Petcrsh urg d a i l y ne\1'spaper Chns Pih ( R u�h H n ur ) and i' w r i t i ng <1 rt i c l c, 1>e ri l 1L l i c a l l y ahllUt h i, experi ence in the U n i teLl t a r e , . One \ l f his fi rs t s u h m i s� i nns de,c r i hed the Cu lhy rnmpu�. a �et t i ng unfa m i l iar to most Ru,,ians, who a re ;icc u'tl lllled to large u n i \·ers i t ies 11· i th dorm i tnries srr e ad thrnughout the c i ty, he says. "When l a�ked my ed i tm what I -,hou l d w r i te aho u t A merica, he s a i d , ' A n y th i ng aho u t America i s mteres t i ng . ' R us� ian people a re i nterested in e\'ery t h i ng abo u t how A merican::. l i ve1\·hat they eat, ho w they spend t h e i r t i me, what makes them happy . " T h e art i c le · S h u m i lrn· wri tes may help d i spel stereotypes aho u t A me r i cans, he says. " M an y Rus i ans t h i n k of America as M ic k ey Muu�e, Coc a-Cola and hamburgers. I f you only watched American mnvie� you wo u ld think i t is o n l y a coun t ry of rohhers and p o l i c e , " he s a i d . S h u m i lov a lso want t o bri dge c u l t u ra l d i fferences b y helping educate e l e m e ntary school children in the
W<i terl' i l le a rea. He is ; 1 ,, i , t i ng fou rt h and fifth ,g r;1der , in a ,i -,ter c i ty prnj e c r \\' i t h the Ru,�ian tull'n nf K u t l a�. Pe t n ll' i, enj o y i n g C i lhy\ "friend ly a t rn u,ph e re " a ncl the camaraderie amung 't udent,. " I wa, surrfr,ed hy th i::.," he 'aid. "There i' qu i te < 1 11 <lt t i tude uf caring hy 1>el 1plc here." He a bn h a s been i m pre�::.ed hy the teac h i ng approach nf foc u l ty and hy student-,' acce::.� tu acad e m i c foc i l i t i e::. . A c t i ve in the Out ing Cl uh-M u u n t Karahdin is his fol'urite de:,t ina t ion Petrn,· say , that he misses his father's dacha, !neared
says , the wonders of elec t l\ >n ic mai l keep h i m in c l ose wuch. "] 1ni te e-ma i l every day," he �a id . "A letter take h a lf a month to get to my home, h u t an e - ma i l me sage take!> about f urry seconds. " Den isova , w h o i s tudying economics and i nternational stud ies, is equally impressed hy Colhy'� nurturing env i ron ment . " l l i k e the professors a lot," he ·ai d . " People here are very friendly and want to help yo u . " Americans' tereotypes of her coun try are s tr i k i ng, Denism'a says. For e xampl e ,
abo u t 1 00 miles sou t h of Moscow. B u t there are n1any reasons to like M a i ne , he adds. " I e n j oy the h i k ing here hecause i n Moscow you must d r i ve a lo n g d i stance to fi nd a suitable place to h i k e , " Petrov said. Although he misses his family and friends, P e t rov
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when she told a fe llow student t h a t she mis eel living in a warm climate, the s t udent reac ted w i t h d i sbel ief. " he thought that bec ause I was R us::.ian that I l il'ed in S i he r i a . My home is on t h e Black ea. The c l i m a te is like Ca l i fo rn ia . " Co lby al re ady feels l i ke home i n some ways, ac cord i ng to S h u m i l ov . "Some t i mes l forget I 'm in another cou n try," he s a i d . "When I go away to Bo ton or ano t he r c i ty I like coming back here. 1 k now I ' m home when I see the library
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ecky Lebowitz '96 barrier, Lehowit: say- . "At wanted to teach photog fir t I would walk mtn the raphy. In Russia. With help classroom a11Li eYer y tme from outside beneficiarie would tand up. " But once and Colby, she wa able to the class became more do it when she pent a informal, the stuLlent seme ter abroad last year in were much more outgoing St. Petersburg. and he was able to make a A Ru sian major, Lebowitz real connection with wa upposed to attend them, he says. cla ses and teach English to Lebowit: concentrated j unior high-aged students in on a different theme each a St. Petersburg school week. "One week we y tern. However, she asked would do composition and to teach photography in read per pect ive, the next color Becky Lebowitz (center) organ ized and taught a photography class and was told that if she could and pattern ," she aid. for R u ssian j u n ior high students. acquire the appropriate The cla s would d iscuss equipment her idea would be approved. Lebowitz reali:ed the theme and then students would venture out into the that because she would not have acce to a darkroom, she street of St. Peter burg and take pictures. would have to teach the cla s with Polaroid cameras. After Hav ing virtually no previou photography experience, ome persuading, she say , George Hamilton, a "very gener tudent at first "j u t wanted to take nap shot of the ir ou " Colby parent with connections to Polaroid in Rus ia, friend , " Lebowit: aid. But after he explained the real agreed to donate eight camera and fi lm for the proj ect. purpose of the clas , she aid, "they were great." "I t's a good thing they don't have liability law in Lebowitz started her photography cla with a group of five eventh graders. "I wa surpri ed that the class ize was Ru ia, becau e they were u ually running around like cra:y in the treets," she said. "People walk ing downtown o small," she aid. "But 1 gue they liked it, because every week there were more and more kid . And they kept coming thought it was a li ttle strange, and some people were really uncomfortable having their picture taken." But the re ults unt il the cla s wa fu ll." She ende<l up with 16 students, two were "very impressive," according to Lebowit: . to a camera. At the end o f the course, tudents assembled a n exhibit he met with tudent twice a week, Lebowit: says. "The of their be t work that was attended by parents, teachers fir t day I decided to teach the cla in Engli h, but after l and tudents. Lebowit: has rayed in contact with the found out that a few of the k id couldn't understand me, I school and her students and has been offered a job teach taught the cla s in Rus ian. Sometimes they forgot I wa n't ing Engli h there. She would like to go back after college, Ru s ian, and they would rattle off at me," he said. Lebowit: ay . "They were fantastic kid . " + The c las had to overcome an initial teacher- tudent
The Other Mr. Cl inton Approximately 3 ,000 funk music fan de cended on Colby' Alfond Athletic Center on October 21 for a concert by George Cl inton and the P-Funk All Stars. Judging from the costume , inging and dancing, they couldn't haYe been happier. Featuring an entourage of more than 30 mu ic ian in full-funk reoalia-char acterized by purple and orange clothing and ourlandi h hat -Clinton and the All Stars treated the crowd of students and community member to three hour- of mu ic and merriment. Clinton, whose unique fu ion of rock, j azz and reggae produced the ound de cribed a "funk" popular ized by his 1 9 70's band Parliament, now tour mall venues but retains a trong following. Co-publ icity chair Paul Fontana '96 of Scar dale, N.Y. , aid the concert wa "a huge event. It wa the mo t fu ll concert in recent memory."
More Party M ix, Please More than half of the tudent who responded to a survey conducted by The Colby Echo aid the College should provide more weekend ocial activitie . The urvey, conducted in November, revealed that while tudents l ike the availabil ity and variety of campus activitie , they would l ike more. According to the Echo, only 20 percent of the 2 03 tudent surveyed aid they were atisfied with the on-campus ocial cene. The new paperquoted one memberofthe Clas of '99 a aying, "We need more Stu-A ponsored event on can1pus becau e off-campus partie take away from the community and create more problem uch a driving drunk . " Nearly half of the survey r e pondent aid they prefer on campus parties becau e they are more convenient and don't require tran portation. 29
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h e student s i t t ing i n t he new Pau l J . Schupf S c i e n t ific Comr"' u t i ng Center ,m the wr floor of the Keyes B u i ld i ng ha� Je l ayed supper for a \\·h i l e . H e 's tap p i ng on C l keyhoard , �urrnunJeJ hy eq u i pment that \\·ould make student'i a t m a n y maj l 1r u n i \·ersi t i e� \\'ecp \\' i t h envy. ix S i l i c nn G ra p h i c s Wl)rkstat im1s ring the room . On a far table a glea m i ng Po\\'er Chal lenge desktop supercomputer q u i e t l y goes <lhout i ts bus i ness. The S i l irnn G ra p h ics m a c h i n e ( SG l 's to the c ognoscen t i ) and the supercomputer run ri ngs a round personal n1rnpu ters. They can do m i l l ions of c a l c u l a t ions i n seconds, model molecu les or rn u l t i le\'el m aps, d L ) q u a n t u m mec h a n i c a l c a l c u l a t i ons i n a to m i c phy ics or shm\· you ho\\' star� are formed. And they a re a\'a i lable fnr use by Co lhy students \\' i th o u t the sign- up sheets and week long \\'a i t i ng peri ods endured hy students cbewhere. Professor of Chem istry Tl 1m S h a t t u c k meets a \' i i to r at nne of the SG I ' . He c l i cks h i s way deep i n to a program in compu ter-aided molec u l a r design, demon stra t ing ho\\· students and fac u l ty use the mac h i ne to examine molecu les i n a variety of ways. Shmtuck e x p l a i ns that the ·oftware helps s t ud e n ts develop t h e "chem i c a l i n t u i t ion" t h a t l e a d s to brea k t h roughs, part i c u l a rl y i n the in \'ent ion uf new drugs. "We often teac h tudents ahn u t molecu le · and how t h e y react to various ubstance ·,
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b u t \\'e haven't been teach ing students how tn decide which cumpounJ� to make in (1rdcr to accompl ish a task , " he �ays. " nw we can." He adds t h a t Colby students are ahle tL) m i ne Jaraha�es dcsc rihi n,g crnnpuuml ac t i \' i ty anJ stru c t u re that are a v a i lahle a l nwst Sl)lcly to p h armace u t i c a l firms and chemical c11mpanic�. � h a t tu c k is prnud nf the technology, purchased with
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an ywhcre, thanks to a h a lf decade's effort hy me mbers of the d i \ ' i sion i n partner sh i p ll' i t h o l l ege ad m i n is tra tms and �raff and several don1., rs. Enro l lment in mathema t i cs are up l 00
Ryan S u l l iva n '96 at a S i licon G raphics worksta t i o n .
percent from fi ve years ago; other departments have enj oyed 40 percent or greater inc rease · in majors. Bio l ogy, with 200 maj ors, is now t ied w i t h Eng l ish as the most sough t -after program on campus. Sc ience educ a t i on i e nj oy i ng a resurgence across the coun try, but Col by has heen i n the vanguard . When Rohert M c Arth u r wa named dean of fac u l ty in 1 988 h e dec ided to concen trate much of h i s energy on the S c i ence Oivi ion. He
gifts from t rustee Pa u l Sch upf and the N a t i onal Sc ience Fou ndation, b u t he won ' t be sucked i n to an ooo and - a h h session about i t. "These a re the too ls of chen1 istry," he says, "and we 're here to teach students to be c h e m ists." That bedrock be l i ef-that of course Colby students must ha\'e the hest fac i l i t i es, equi pment and teac h i ng- d r i ves the Col lege's Sc ience Di\'i ion. Co lby students a re rec e i v i ng among the fi ne t c ience educat i ons avai l able
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gathered mem bers of the va rious sc ience departments and , with them, spent t wo and a h a l f years researc h i ng and wri t i ng the Plan for the Sciences, which was i mple men ted in J a n uary 1 99 1 . The t h ree-ph ase plan c a l led for re\'amping the c ur r i c u l u m to focu · on research b y students at a l l levels, for add i ng to the phys ical space i n w h i c h sc ience was taught and f or upgra d i ng to state of- t he-art equipment across the hoard . I n the fi rst phase, Colby h i red a cad re of young fac u l ty members i n the sc iences and recei ved ·everal gran t for equ i rrnent. A 1 99 1 gra n t from the Howard H ughes Medical I ns t i tu te and ci1e many ci1at have fol loll'ed, says F. R usse l l Cole, c h a i r o f Colby' Biology Departm e n t and chair of the steering com m i t tee that oversees t he grant, "\'erified t h a t the whole theme of the c u rr i c u l u m-mo\' ing forward w i t h h ands-on opport u n i t ies for students, involv i ng them in researc h , c hanging the c u rri c u l u m to prepare them to do their own research and then let t i ng them do i t-has been abso l u t e l y the right d i rec t i on to go i n . " Phase t w o is symbo l i zed by the F . W . O l i n Sc ience Center, now rising next to the A rey B u i l d i ng . The center not only w i l l provide new space and technolog i c a l l y advanced equ ipment for use in the biosc i ences, i t w i l l free e x i s i t i ng space f o r n e w uses by o t h e r depart ment in the d i v i ion. A $ 7 50,000 c h a l lenge
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rving Sus didn't introduce theater t o Colby, but during his 2 3 -year tenure on the fac ulty ( 1 9 5 7 - 80) h is name wa ynonymous with it. He wa a teacher, director and actor, and he parked an interest in drama on Mayflower H i ll that ha never waned. Su died in November 1 99 3 , and the College ha learned that he left an add itional legacy to the art he loved-a $ 1 83 ,000 bequest to endow a perform ing art fund at Colby. Earning from the Irving D. u s Fund for the Perform ing Arts will be u ed to bring to the campus visiting "promi nent practitioner in the field of performing arts, includ ing such people as actor , dancers, motion picture directors and cene de igners." Joylynn Wing, chair of the Performing Art Department, aid he and her colleague were "delighted" about the gift from Suss. " H is generosity and vi ion will urely enrich not only our program but the entire campus community," she aid. And that will be fitting ince Su s did so much in hi lifetime to instill a broad enthusiasm for drama on the campus. " Many of Sus 's early production , under the auspice of the student club Powder & W ig, were in a mi erable wood framed former storage garage near the tenni courts-aptly named the Li ttle Theater," remembered Dean of the College Earl Smith. The bu ilding burned down in 1 968, but Suss was undaunted. Thereafter, productions were staged in the orche tra rehearsal room or G iven Auditorium of the B ixler Center, in the Runnals Union gym, the unfinished loft of Robert Union, a d ining hall or the downtown Opera House . Six years before he retired, uss, who e faculty a signment wa one-quarter performing arts and three-quarters Engl ish , saw the Runnals gym rechristened Strider Theater. Two years later the Colby in Lon.don theater program was established, and in 1 984 performing arts was added to Colby's list of majors. In a 1 99 1 interview with Colby, Suss reflected on the program' progress and showed he was aware of how much a bequest could mean to it. "When I came here in 1 9 5 7 ," he said, "part of my salary was two hundred dollars for theater. We subsisted primarily on t icket sales. At one facu lty meeting I complained that there were twelve false chimneys on the buildings, at two thousand dollars apiece, which repre ented my budget for two centuries. " +
Che m istry teaching assistant Terri Poon loads an a utoc l ave
grant from The Kresge Foundation of Troy, M ich., announced in N ovember, bol ter the final portion of the plan. The grant requires Colby to raise more than $ 1 . 8 million in new gifts by May 1 , 1 99 7 toward the completion of a $ 5 - m il l ion proj ect to renovate current buildings and to endow future needs in the sciences. The renovations will include everal new laboratorie , equipment and technologi cally advanced classrooms. Other recent phase three grants include $ 7 5 0,000 from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc. to help renovate and upgrade the c ience complex; $ 2 50,000 from the W . M . Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, for a molecular and cellular biology re earch laboratory; and $50,000 for a cell and microbiology laboratory from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, New York. Execution of the Plan for the Sciences has been possible because of Colby's propensi ty for teamwork and hard work. On the administrative side, President Bill Cotter and McArthur vi it alumni donors, founda tion officer and other friends of the College to help ecure maj or grants. Vice Pre ident for Develop-
ment and Alumni Relations Randy Helm, Corporate and Foundation Relations Director Linda Goldstein and A ociate Director Betsy Brown make vis its, too, and they craft written propo al in concert w ith members of the Sc ience Divi s ion, led by Cole, Shattuck, Chemistry Profes or Brad Mundy, Biology Professor David Firmage and Division Chair J ay Labov. Depending on the nature of the grant propo al, that core group is expanded to include other facu lty members and administrators. Science faculty have devoted hundreds of hours to various grant effort , often g iv ing up weekends, evenings and holidays to help develop proposal while keeping up with the ir regular teaching duties and research. And always, Cole says, the College's Physical Plant Department comes through once the money has arrived and the project is underway. "People on the outside don't realize that there are all these people involved," Cole said. "They don't ee the year of focused work. We developed a plan for the sciences, publ ished i t and then went out and funded components of it. We've had
Phone It In One goal of the Campaign for Colby is to rai e the percentage of alumni who donate to the Alumni Fund, and the Office of Annual G iv ing has made i t imple to make a donation over the telephone . I f you would l ike to contribute to the fund and charge your gift to V I S A , an American Express card or MasterCard, call 1 -800-3 1 1 3 6 7 8 . For a l l other call to the annual giv ing department dial 1 - 2 0 7 - 8 7 2 - 3 1 86.
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has been desc r i bed _ as a big fam i l y , and th i � fo m i ly has big expen�es. The month l y electric b i l l for Mayflower H i ll is 8 3 ,000 on m·erage- ' l m i l l ion a year. A year's supply of ro i let t i ssue and raper tu\\'els ru ns 2 7 ,000. And when i t 's t i me
to pay B i l l Gates and M icrosoft for maj nr u p grades tn M icrosoft Word and Excel rrngrcim� a l ready run n i ng on campus comr"u ters, the Informa t i on Technolu,L,')' en·ices office forks m·er approx i mately 2 2 ,000. This year's t u i tion i nc rease \\'as the lowest ( as a rercentage ) in 20 years, and Colby scores h igh am mg col leges in cost-value analyses. U nder President W i l l i am Cotter the Col lege h as bal a nced it budget 1 6 year� i n a roll'. Colby taffers, part i c u larly in the Phy ical Plant Department ( PP D ) , are
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a lmost legendary for the i r ahi l ity to squee:e e,·ery drop frmn a dollar without sac rifi c ing s t u d e n t a n d fac u l ty needs. Fiscal respt ln · ih i l i ty is a l most a rel i gi on w i rh the Cnl l ege\ adm i n i�tra t ion. So j ust where does the Col l ege's 6 1 .6 m i l l iun 1 99 5 -96 hud get go l Trea�urer Do u g R e i nhardt ' 7 1 ride� herd Dn the hig items-the increase i n the nu mher l lf foc u lty member� and cmrelar i ,·e increa�e� in salarie�. �upporr cu,t� and office and c la ss r0< 1 m space; the add i t i on nr rapiJ gro\\'th l)f L)ffices l i ke l nfmmarion Tech nology , Career cn·ice� and Off-Campu:o. Study; and the expansion of Ath letic� frnm a mL 1dest men'. program and a women's ten n i � team when Reinh ardt ,i;raduated tL1 a fu l l men's and a fu l l women'.;; ath letics prngra m . But, says Reinhardt, the h ig p i c t u re i s more ahout Co lhy's expec tation -wh ic h c o m e from the t o p dn\\Tl. Cotter i ns ist!> that Co lby adhere to a r i go ro u s cheJule f or m a i n tenance, repa i rs and rep lacement of won1-out materials. H e helps make sure that the deta i l are seen to and that the campus look and runs wel l . " ( Former A d rn i n istrati \·e Vice Pre:, i dent ) S ta n icholson a n d l used to joke that we ought to h u i !J a tunne l from the pres ident's house to Eusti , becau e every r i me he walked across campu · it cost us ten thousand dol lars," R e i nhardt said w i th a c h uckle. " ornplex i ty and cost come in when you do anyth i ng on the cale we're doing it," a id Ray Ph i l l i ps,
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d i rec tor of i nf ormation tcch nolngy se rv i ces . Ignore for a moment that there ll'as nu regu lar budget f or compu ters and printers 1 5 year� agu anJ Cl m�iLler that Ph i l l i ps ·pent $ 3 1 ,000 t h i !> year fL 1r the toner cart ridges thm go in the Col lege's 0
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pri nters, he says. W i t h rrice i ncrease- for paper becom i ng front-page news, Ph i l l i ps said he already spends abo u t 5 ,000 o n t h e 1 ,600 ream that student use i n laser pri nters each year. Staff and fac u l ty department budgets pay for the paper they use; student� aren 't charged for their paper u e. Despi te an amhi tiou!> red uce-reuse recyc le pro.gram ( al u m n i re lations a n d development offices turn outdated -tat iL1nery i nto notepads and use
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Jirccror of /)lrysiclll /)/(lnc ]a:,er prin ters. That despi te the fact that he has k e pt the nu mher of laser printers on campus low hy i nves t i ng in network i ng and shared access to printers. Figure that each nf the 48 toner cartridges m ight pri n t 4,000 page and yuu don't need the College's new upercomputer to con c l ude that, elec tronic i nformation technology notwi thstand i ng, Colby uses a lot of paper. "If you laid all the paper Colby puts through photo cop i e rs end to end , i t would t retch from Waterv i l le to Omaha, N ebrask a , " said Ken Gagnon, d i rector of adm i n is tra t i ve services. That' a rough est i mate, ba eel on about 1 4 .000 reams or 7 m i l l ion sheet each year, and i t doesn't i nc l ude paper that goes through the lase r
the hack s ide of used paper fl1r faxes ) , Gagnon predicts thar, "Our vol ume h a s not peaked yet . " He sees elec tronic i nformat ion technol ngy contri b u t i ng to rather than red u c i ng paper use s i nce i t ha increased the vol ume of ava i lable i nformation that student and fac u l ty members find usefu l . People tend to hrowse the I n ternet, find someth i ng they l i ke, print i t o u t a n d ome t i mes even copy it for the i r col leagues, say Gagnon. Alan Lewis, d i rec tor of physical plant, acknowledge that Colby' budget for opera t i ng and m a i n t a i n i ng 7 00 - p l us acre and 46 b u i l d i ng is more than most M a i ne towns pend. "We spend a bo u t 1 . 3 m i l l ion c lean i ng-on c u tod i a l serv i ce. -and a b o u t another
� half a million on grounds maintenance," he aid. "We spend 27 ,000 a year on lightbulb and we pend $63 ,000 n paint." That million-dollar annual electric bill ha about doubled in the pa t 10 year , and it ha Lewi and his colleague investigating co generation of electricity in the College's new steam plant. "I t's in the rate and the uti lization," he aid of the electric bill run-up. "A lot of it's in the dorms. I've been in dorm room where I 've counted eventeen electrical appliances-popcorn popper , andwich toa ter , tereos, immersion heater , electric toothbrushes, you name it." The paper products$2 7 ,000 worth of toilet tissue and paper towels-tell a tory about the admini tration's Yankee thrift. everal year ago a paper manufacturer in.stalled large-roll toilet paper holder in all College bathrooms for free a part of an agreement to supply the paper. When Lewis and Arthur Sawtelle, supervisor of custodial ervice , aw the price of the paper the following year, they removed all the holders and put in their own so they could hop for a better price. Sawtelle found a year's supply at Marden's Surplus & Salvage in Waterville and got an incredible bargain. This year he anticipated the run-up in paper prices that's now b ig news and bought as much as he could store at pre inflation prices. Paper prices have librar ians wringing their hands too. The libraries rely increasingly on subscriptions to keep up-to-date informa tion on the shelve . Suanne Muehlner, director of the Colby libraries, say the
College sub cribe to about 2 , 1 00 periodical . Fifteen year ago about 30 percent of the library's budget went for periodicals and 70 percent for book ; it' now ju t about reversed. " ub cription rates for individual periodical ha\ e g ne up 10 to 1 5 percent per year, and ome titles in the c ience have doubled in a single year " Muehlner said. In addition, the librarie pay about 60,000 a year for access to library materials uch as electronic database , an amount that is "a lot more than we paid for the printed material they replaced." The bottom line is that efficiency and Yankee ingenuity serve Colby students and faculty member well. In a recent study of the leading 1 9 liberal art college in the mid-Atlantic and New England state , Colby ranked at or near the top in pending on in truc t ion and student ervices and well down the Ii t for what it pend on "executive-level" management act iv itie and its physical plant. As a percentage of its overall budget for educational and general expenditure , Colby ranked fir t of the 19 colleges in tudent service , including athletic , counseling and career ervices and the financial aid office and fourth in in truction, including faculty alarie and academic department expenses. The same table put Colby 1 4th of 1 9 for both institutional support and for operation and maintenance of the physical plant, largely thanks to the vigilance of Alan Lewis and the PPD staff. "It's very clear," said Cotter, "that we put our dollars into faculty and students and save money on the administrative side." +
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Stage of H istory Though the Perform ing Art Department wa n't founded until 19 4 , it root tretch back to the earl ie t da s of the College. Training in public peaking was part .,; of the curriculum; rhetoric and elocution were requ ired cour e for every Colby tudent for mor than l 00 years. The earlie t recorded dramatic production wa She Stoops to Conquer, a benefit for "athletic mtere � " _ d i rected by In trucror of Elocu tion and Gymnastic W1ll 1am Bams rn 1 890. Eight year later tudent founded the Dramatics oc1ety, which for the next �--&i two decade produced play for the town and cam pu commun ities with the help of drama coach Exerene Flood of Waterville. By 1 926 the Dramatics Soc iety, under the gu idance of Prof. Cec il A. Rollins ' 1 7 , had become Powder & W ig, which. merged with the women's drama club, Ma que, a few year later. In 1 9 33 Rollin began to teach a work hop that sought to give tudent "training in the art of the theater." It was a very unu ual course : for it day because in the 1 930s the applied art were not yet regarded as a legiti mate area of study.
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Eugene J e l l ison ' 5 1 , Roll ins's uccessor and theater director · during the 1 950s, brought a new energy and creativ ity to · th.eater at Colby and laid the groundwork for I rving uss, generally regarded as the founder of the College's modern theater department ( see G ifts & Grants) .
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Record Attendance Among the 83 students who are children of alumni are i ters Jennie
'99 and Le lie Record '98, daughters of Duane C. Record '65 , of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and their cou in, Emily Record '9 , daughter of Ralph S. Record '66, of Readfield, Maine.
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Passing the Puck By Marc G lass
Th i rt y year� aft e r he p l a yed un C n l b y's 1 96 5 -66 ECAC D i , i � i t m II c ha m p i onsh i p i c e l·h 1ckey team , P a u l rn n i n ' 6 7 11·a� hac k in A l f o nd A rena on December 9 , this time \\'atc h ing h i s son , Brian ' 9 6 , skate f o r the W h i te i\ l u lc s .
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cham p innsh ip g<-rn1e evokes nt lt nnly n t ) t a l g i a hut a sense t)f r"'erspec t i l'e . " I t \\'a� the gn.'<HC�t. After hea t i ng )\, (e rr i m;ic k 5 -0, we \\'ent rn th e Fen\\'ay )\, fa i ne . a
-;c h no I hockey for 1 0 year� and refereed hoth h i gh � hon! and C t i l lcge hockey ft l r 20. R u t he �ays h e ne1·er Ct >mpc l kd Brian to p lay . " Brian latc hed nntn h nc k ey \\' hen he \\'<:b ft 1 u r year� old. I 11«1s del igh ted B r i an wa� p l a y i n g youth hnckey, but I d i d n ' t get too i 1woh·ed-I S<111' tt)O many 11· e l l - rnean ing pe t l �• k' w i th the yti u t h h t ickey-pare n t �\'ndru m e , " he �a i d . " I j u st wanted h i m
B r i a n C ro n i n · 95 cele brated h i s fathe1· Pa u l ' 6 7 ' s hockey r e u n i o n with a g a m e-wi n n i n g goal a g a i n st B owdoi n
P;rn l has seen a l most a l l of h is son's Colhy games, b u t n o n e matc hed t h e Bowdo i n g a m e for pate rn a l pride. Bef ore a cro11·d of nea r l y 2 ,000 and with j u s t 1 : 1 9 l e ft i n regu l a t i on p lay, Brian cored to g i1·e Culhy a 2 - 1 v ic tL1ry. Later, i nside the locker mom , Pa u l watched as a r ep or t e r i n terviewed Brian, whose face wa� s t i l l fl ushed from the l ' i c rnry and the en�u i n g randemon i um . I t w a a fam i l iar scene for Pa u l , t hough he wa-;n ' t in the l i mel ight this t i m e . F o r Pau l , ll'ho earl i e r i n the Boll'do i n g a m e j oined
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[Waterv i l le ] hotel where Ho-Jo's is nnw. A l l the pare n ts and s ignificant o thers 11-cre sta y i ng there , and they had a l l t h e room in one corridor. We h ad the c l ea n - c u t ce lebra t i on any team \\'Ou l d ha1·e a fter a long season and w i n n i ng the ECAC D i v ision II c hampi onsh ip," he sai d . " B u t the t h i ng that makes i t spec i a l f o r me n o w is rea l i : i ng t h a t w h e n my paren ts c a me to the c hampionship game, they were younger than I am roday as l watch Brian play." Pa u l , a h i tory teacher a t Revere H i gh School i n R evere, Ma . , coached h igh
to h;we fun . I knell' there 11·as t i me tu get se ri Llus about h t ic key l ate r in h igh school and c u l lcge . " B r i a n , a Dean ' s L i �t ecnnu m i c � majnr and a M u les en-captain, agrees that he w a s n ' t pushed i nto hoc k e y or into attend i ng
olhy, but he does reca l l hearing tories about t h e champ ionsh ip sea�on. He �ays he feels no pre sure to uphold a champiomh i p legacy . " I t w o u l d be great to win a championsh i p as h i s son a n d a s captain, but I ll'on ' t l e t it d istrac t the team frum the j oh 11·e'"e got to ch" Brian sa i d . "I'm consc ious uf h i s p resence a t games, but he's nm nverly 1·oc a l , " Brian sa id of h is fa ther. "He doesn't c r i t i c i:e, h u t he let · me k now ht)\\' l ska ted after the game ." " I t's e \·e ry fa ther's dream that h i� son w i l l attend h i s a l ma m a t e r a n d p l a y t h e s a m e s�•ort , " �a id Pau l . There a re l i m i ts to the h istorical para l l e l between fa t h e r and son, though . When ask ed why he c hose to major i n economics rather than f n l loll' Pa u l 's l ead and study h istory, Brian sa i d , " I t duesn ' t g o that far . "
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In some ways basketball marvel Matt Hancock '90 never left the hard11\1od. Hancock , co-winner of the D i v i sion I l l Male Ath lete of the Year award as a senior and the fifth-leading scorer in Division I l l h i �tory with 2 ,678 po i n t s , is now executil'e vice pre ident and d i rector of saw m i l l operations at Hancock Lu mber Company in Casco, Maine. A long with his brnther, Kev in, Hancock represents the sixth generation to work in the fam i ly's 1 40-year-old bu ine s. After tryouts with the Bnston Cel t ics and the Golden State Warriors, H ancock was offered a chance to play with the Continen tal Basketbal l Assoc iation' Albany Patroons. He chose instead to
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Hancock now re ide i n Casco with h is wife, Tracy, and coaches chool i n n e rb y Bridgton, where, as a player, he led the boys team to a C l ass B rate championsh i p i n 19 5. girls 1·arsity basketball at Lake R gion H igh
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he women' soccer team ended the e a o n wi th a 1 0 -4- 3 record and it fir t appearance in the ECAC tournament s ince 1 984 . Seeded second, the White Mu les defeated Gordon College in t h e fin round and Connec t icut Col lege in the semi-final before yielding to Plymouth State, 2 - 1 , in the finals. The Wh ite Mu les et several record . Sen ior tri-captain Sarah Eu tis ( Watervi lle, Maine ) ended the sea on second i n career as ist with 1 5 . Forward Shannon Tracy Shannon Tracy ·97 and Sarah '97 ( O ld Bridge, N .] . ) tied the E ustis ' 96 celebrate a goa l . record for most assists in a eason with ix and currently ranks fourth in career points with 1 8 goals and 1 0 assi t . Goalie Heather Garni '99 (We llesley, Mass . ) broke the record for most hutout in a season with 7 .5 and tied the record for mo t consecut i\'e hutout with three. Several team records als were broken thi ea on, including n umber of wins, fewest lo e , mo t goals in a ea on (4 ), fewe t goals allowed ( 1 4 ) and mo t shutout ( 8 ) . The White M ule look forward t o another strong eason in 1 996, says head coach Jen Holsten '90, led by tri-captain Kara Marchant '97 ( Lakeville, Conn. ) , Jennifer Lawrence '97 ( Piedmont, Calif. ) and Cathy Neuger '97 ( Princeton, N .] . ) .
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ead coach Tom Austin urpassed Ed Roundy a the Colby football coach with the most win ( 3 9 ) , and the White M u les garnered a share of the CBB Championship for the eighth consecutive year during a 5 - 3 eason. The team kicked off the eason with a 1 4- 1 1 v ic tory Junior running back Luwau n Curry. over Trinity, avenging la t year's eason-opening lo s to the Bantams-Colby's only lo s in 1 994. But inj uries to key player , including Brad Smith '96 (N. Bridgton, M aine ) , Jason J abar '96 (Waterville, Maine ) , Lawaun Curry '97 ( Roxbury, Mas .) and Peter Matson '97 (Westborough, Ma s . ) left the White Mule at le s than full strength for many games. Six player were named to the A l l-NE CAC team, includi11g J abar, Brett Nardini '96 ( Sc ituate , Mass. ) , Gregg Forger '97 ( Canton, Mas . ) , J errod Deshaw '97 ( Burlington, Vt. ) , Kevin Pirani '96 ( S toneham, Mass. ) and Tom Beedy '97 ( Livermore Fall , M a ine ) .
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Ranked ·econd among Oivi ion I l l New England �chOL)h, the women's tennis team ended the sea on \Yith a 7- 1 record and a th ird-rlace finish at the ew England tou rn ament. Colby's top player, Kim Chea '99 ( Pinang, Malay ia), ,,·nn rhe Ma ine ingles championshir en route to a 1 5 - 3 season. Nu mber two player J essie Anderson '98 ( N orwell, Mas . ) repeated as Maine double · champion with partner Heidi Tyng '99 ( Ea:it Orleans, Ma s . ) . Anderson al n won the second ingles fl ight at the N ew England Champ innshir without dropping a et and fini hed the sea on 1 6-2 . . . . Fac ing a tough schedule this fall, the field hockey ream wa 5-9, although four opponents e caped with overt ime victories. Season highl ight. incl uded a 1 -0 victory over Tri nity, ranked third in the NCAA Oi,·i ion l l ! Norrhea ·t poll at the time, and a 1 -0 lo s to Wi l liam , ranked first in the same poll throughout the sea son . . . . Men's soccer finished the sea on with a 6-8 record but captured the CBB title with a 1 -0 win at Bowdoin and a 4-2 ,· ic tory over Bate on Fam ily Weekend . Forward Marc Small '96 (Acton, Mass . ) and midfielder Tyler Walker ' 9 6 ( Hamp ton, N . H . ) were selected to the Maine College en ior Soccer All- tar NCAA team. Head coach Mark Serdjenian ' 7 3 w a s selec ted b y hi Ma ine coaching peers to lead the NCAA team . . . . Up etting Tuft and Brandei and running only 1 1 points behind fourth- eeded M iddlebury, M a rc S m a l l ' 96 the women's cross country team finished in sixth p lace at the New England Championship . Elizabeth Fagan '97 garnered several honors, i nc luding state champion, All-NESCAC second team and All-New England Oivi ion l l l . Farrell Burns '98 (Clinto n , .Y. ) and Sarah Nadeau '99 (Grahamsv ille, N . Y. ) also v:ere named All-New England . . . . The golf team, led by Eben Dorros '96 ( M i lwaukee, W is . ) , won the Sid Farr I nvitational Tournament with a 7 7 . Todd Guilfoyle '96 ( Marshfield, M a s . ) won the CBB tournament w ith a 79 . . . . Men's cross country runner Pat Fournier '98 ( Bellow Falls, Vt. ) beat 88 competitor to fini h third in the rate of Maine Collegiate Cros Country Champion hip . . . . In it th ird season a a varsity team, Colby c rew ended it sea on with impressive fini he at the Frostbite Regatta in Philadelphia. The men' nov ice e ight and the women's var ity lightweight boats finished in third place, though the women rowed to within a boat-length of the winner. The women's novice boat won its heat and rowed to second place overall. . . . The volley ball team ended its fifth sea on of var ity statu with a econd place fini h at the NESCAC tournament and a surprise ECAC tournament berth. Senior Teresa Tiangha (Redondo Beach, Cal if. ) topped Colby' ingle- eason a sist record with 564 and leads in career a i ts with 89 . After the NE CAC tourna ment on November 3-4, J ackie Bates '98 ( Spokane, Wash . ) w a named All-NE CAC fir t team and Anna Thomson '97 ( Aspen, Colo. ) was named A ll-N E CAC econd team .
F E B R U A R Y
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C O L B Y
Reunion committees have been busy for more than a year planning activities that will make this a special weekend for their classeďż˝. Below is a general schedule of e ve nts for the weekend. Reunion class s also will receive a more complete schedule and reservation form in the mai l , along w i th details about class activities. All events take place on campus, unless specifically noted. When you check in at registration you will receive a program that will provide you with the full schedule and the location of all activities. The registration desk i n the tudent Union will be open Wednesday 3-9 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday : 30 a.m.- 1 1 p.m. and Saturday 8 a . m . - 6 p.m. Please let us know if you expect to arrive other than during those times so we can make arrangements for your check-in. Reservation deadline is May
24;
there i a $ 1 0 late fee per registration after that date. N o refunds after May 3 1 . We cannot guarantee meals or rooms without
reservations. Children are welcome, too! A full program of supervised child care activitie i planned for children of all ages. Infant care (ages 0-4) begins Friday 5 - 1 1 p.m.
and continues Saturday 9 a.m.-midnight. Youngster, pre-teen, and teen programs begin Friday 3 - 1 1 p.m. and continue Saturday 9-noon and 1 : 30 p.m. -midnight.
Youngsters and pre-teens also have activities Sunday 9 a.m.-noon. You may choose the aturday-evening-only option (starting at 5 p.m. ) for a reduced rate. A l ist of private babysitter is available through the Reunion Hot-line. Children not registered for child care may purcha e tickets individually and participate in children's m e a ls. A reduced price is available at breakfast and lunch for children ages 5 - 1 2 , and complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided for children age 4 and under. For more information, call the R e u n ion Hot-line at
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3-9 p.m. All Day
Evening
5,
207-872-3 1 90.
1 996
Reunion Registration Desk Open-S tudent Union Lobby Class of '56 Check-in at Samoset Resort, Rockland Clas of '6 1 Check-in at Colby Class of '66 Early Check-in Option at amoset Resort Clas of '56 Dinner and Light Entertainment Make reservation directly to the clas .
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1 996 9 a.m.-9 p.m Daytime All Day
Evening 6 p.m. 6-8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Evening
Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby Class of '56 Activities: Boat trip, eal watch, lunch, etc. Md i -coast Maine, Camden/Rockporc/Rockland Class of '6 1 White-Water Rafting Trip Clas of ' 5 1 Check-in at Radi on Ea tland Hotel, Portland Cla s of '66 Check-in at amoset Resort, Rockland Cla s of '61 Lobster Bake Class of '5 l Reception and Dinner in Portland Dinner Buffet in Dining Hall Class of '7 l Reception and Dinner in Portland Class of '56 Lobster Bake and Dance at amoset Resort Clas of '61 Get-together Class of 'S l Theater/Concert in Portland (optional)
Evening 10 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7-9 a.m. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 9: 15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
I l a.m.
1 1 :30- 1 :30 p.m.
Afternoon
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1 996 7-9 a.m. :30 a.m. - 1 l p.m. 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 8:30 a.m. M ming All Day l 0 a.m. 1 1 a.m. 1 :45 p.m. Noon-I p.m. 10 a.m . - 1 : 3 0 p.m. 2 p.m. 4-6 4:30-5:30 5 : 30-6:30 5 : 3 0- 7 5 :45-6:45
p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
6:45 p.m. After Dinner
Breakfast in Dining Hall Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby Class of '66 Trip to Hurricane I land, Rockland Alumni Golf Tournament and Luncheon Wacerville Country Club Class of '56 Activities: Golf, tennis, museums, etc. Mid-coast Maine, Camden/Rockporc/Rockland Clas of ' 6 1 Activities: Tennis, softball, golf, etc. Class of '5 l Tour of Portland Museum of Art (optional) Class of '5 1 leave by ferry to Diamond Cove Island Class of 'S l Lunch at Diamond Edge Restaurant Class of '5 l leave Diamond Cove, return to Portland Lunch in Dining Hall Classes of '7 1 and '76 Boat Trip on Casco Bay Tour of Davis and Jette Gallerie in Bixler Art Mu eum with Museum Director Hugh Gourley Clas of '5 1 Welcoming Reception Class of ' 7 1 Reception Clas of '66 Reception Dinner for Youngsters and Teens Awards Banquet Reception All-Class Awards Banquet-All alumni are welcome. Reunion classes will be seated rogether. Music by Al Corey Dancing with the Al Corey Band
1 -2 p.m. Afternoon 2 : 30 p.m. 3 : 30-5 p.m. 5 : 30-6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Evening
IO p.m. 1 -4 a.m.
Class Reunion Get-togethers Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous 8,
1 996 Breakfast in Dining Halls
Reunion Registration Desk Open-S tude nt Union Lobby Alumni Fun Run Class of '71 eminar Tour of the Harold Alfond Athletic Center Alumni Association pring Meeting-President Cotter will provide an update on the College. Alumni Council Business Meeting The Parade of Classes Class Reunion Photographs for Fifty-Plus Club and Classes of ' S l , '56, '6 1 , '66, '76, '8 1 , '86, '9 1 Class Luncheons, Cookouts, Class Events: Fifty-Plus Club and Classes of '46, ' 5 1 , '56, and '66 Lobster Bake/Chicken Barbecue Cla s of '6 1 , '7 1 , '76, '8 1 , '86 Cookouts Class of ' 9 1 Big G's Lunch Class of '36 Meeting at 2 p.m. Clas of '46 Campus and Museum Tour at 1 :30 p.m. Cla s of 'S 1 Tour of Waterville at 2 p.m. Class of '66 Discussion Seminar Clas of '71 oftball Game, Volleyball Colby Author Booksigning Alumni and Faculty Panel Discussions Tour of Davi and Jette Galleries in Bixler Art Museum with Museum Director Hugh Gourley Math Department Reception Dinner for Youngster and Teens Cla of '46 SOth Reunion Photograph Cla s of ' 7 1 2 5 th Reunion Photograph Class Reunion Dinners Dances, Entertainment, Cla s Events: Fifty-Plus Club and Class of '46 Reception Class of '5 l After-dinner Get-together and Mu ic Gig Class of 'S6, '6 1 , '66, '7 1 , '76, '8 1 , '86, '9 1 Parties/Dances Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous Colby Diner-the after-hours hot-spot
Su DAY, JUNE 9, 1 996 7:30 a.m.-noon Morning 8:30 - 1 0:30 a.m. 1 0, 1 1 , noon 1 0: 15 a.m.
Brunch Buffet in Dining Hall Coffee and Doughnut in Clas Reunion Headquarters Le bigay Alumni Coffee Hour, Spon ored by The Bridge Tours of Miller Library Tower Boardman Memorial Seivice
1 9 9 6 Reunion Weekend Reservation
Name (fir t, maiden/Colby, last): ------ Class year: Colby c l a s year ( if applicab l e ) :
Spouse/guest' name: -------
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Pkue �d�are pre�rred nam� for n�n�ag� ------ -----City/ rate/ Zip:
Address: Home phone:
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Business phone: ------
Adults MEALS & EVENTS
Number
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Rate
Total $_
Children age Number
5-12 Rate
Tota l
TOTAL
Thursday , June 6
Class of ' 6 1 Whitewater Rafting
$79 .00
Class of '66 Trip and Lunch
$ 1 1 .00
Cla s of '6 1 Lobster Bake
$20.00
' 7 1 Reception and Dinner
$ 2 4 .00
Dinner on campus* Friday , June
$_ $_ $__ 1 0 .00 4.25
8.50
7
Breakfast*
$_
$3 .00
4.0
All-Clas Golf Tournament and Lunch
50.00
$_
$_
Classes of '7 1 , '76 Cruise and Lunch
$ 1 5 .00
$_
Class of '5 1 I land Lunch
$ 2 5 .00
$_
Lunch on campus*
$6.00
$_
$_
Youngsters and Teens Cookout (same price for all children)= All-Clas Awards Banquet*
20.00
$_
1 0 .00 $3.50
$_
$5 .00=
$_
$_
$_
Saturday , June 8 $3.50
5 . 00
Breakfast* Lunch: Lob ter Bake* or Chicken BBQ*
$20.00
20.00
$_
$_
1 6.00
16.00
$--
$_
$_
4 . 00
$_
$_ $_
$7.50
or Cookout ( circle one) '6 1 , '7 1 , '76, '86
or Class of ' 8 1 cookout
I 0.00
$_
$4.00
$_
or Clas of '9 1 Big G's lunch
6.00
$_
$5 .00
$_
$6.00=
$_
Youngsters and Teens Dinner (same price for all children) =
$_
Reunion Class Dinner (circle one) 50+ Club, Cla s of '46
no charge
Cla s of '5 1
$60.00
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Class of '56
36.00
$_
Cius of '61
$ 2 5 .00
$_
$_
Clas of '66
$ 3 2.00
$_
$_
Class of ' 7 1
$ 3 2 .00
$_
$_
Class o f '76
$ 3 2 .00
$_
$_
Class of ' 8 1
$ 3 3 .00
$_
$_
Class o f '86
$ 3 2.00
$_
$_
Class of '9 1
$42.00
$_
$_
$ 5 .00
$_
Sunday , June 9
Breakfa t Buffet*
$3.50
$_
$_
* C l a of ' 4 6 and SO+ Club-no charge b u t y o u must indicate if you plan to attend. # Meals marked with # are included with Child Care package price. Other children may attend but mu t purchue ticket. Complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided for children age 4 and under. SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS
Check as many as apply:
0 Kosher
0 Vegetarian
0 N o fat
0 No salt
0 N o cholesterol
Other:
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On-Campus Accommodations Ad1drs Rate
Children Total
30.00* 0 Check here for Wednesday arrival
( Rate per pmon for entire length of stay )
and 1mder Rare
$_
Total
1 5 .00
0 Check here for Thursday arri v a l .
0 Yes, I would be gbd ro �hare a room. Please cissign me with *
12
= of people
_______
or
0 another c las mare.
Class of '46 and 5 0 + Club-no charge, bur you must ind icate if you need on-campus accommodations.
Activities :J Check here if you w ish to reserve a golf cart for the Golf Tournament ( 25 charge payable at the cour e ) .
Child Care Programs
Al l - Wee k -
Sat. p.m.
end Rate
Only Rate
Babys i tt i ng ( age 0-4 )
$40.00
$ 1 5 .00
$_
Youngsters ( age 5- )
$40.00
$ 1 5 .00
$_
Youngsters (age 9- 1 2 )
40.00
$ 1 5 .00
$_
Teena e r ( over age 1 2 )
30.00
1 5 .00
u m be r
Na mes/Ages/Sexes
Class Reunion Memento Class of '6 1 Sweater Class o f '66
Med
weatsh irt
L
XL XL
Med
L
Cla s of ' 7 1 T-sh irt
Large ___
XL
Cla s of ' 7 6 T-sh irt
Large
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XL
Class of ' 1 T-shirt
Large
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XL
Class of '86 T-sh irt
Large
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XL
Child
Class of '9 1 T-shirt
Large
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XL
Rate
Toral
$ 2 8.00
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2 7 . 50
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M
L
8.50
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hild
M
L
$7.50
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Child
M
L
750
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M
L
$7.50
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Total
7.50
Classes of ' 5 1 , ' 5 6 , '9 1 momenta inc luded in c l a s s reunion d i nner package.
Total
Meals and events
Payment form:
Accommodations
0 ca h
Reunion memento
0 check 0 cred i t card
Ch i ld care Lare/On-sire registration fee ( after May 24) @
10
Total
Exp. Date
Cred i t Card Payment 0 Mastercard
pec ial needs:
O VI A
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0 American Expres
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Mail to:
Reun ion Reservations
43 1 2 Mayflower H i l l A lumni Office Colby College Waterv i l le , Maine Fax :
207 -87 2-3073
0490 1
lumni at
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Correspondent : Fletcher Eaton ' 3 9
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Perry Dri \'e
Needham, M A 0 2 1 9 2 6 1 7 - 449- 1 6 1 4
Fletcher Eaton ' 3 9 , 50-rlus cor resronde n t , is recm·ering a t home fo l l o w i n g byrass surgery l ast fa l l .
TWENTIES Marie Holmes Ray
' 2 3 res ides in
the Hollywell Health Care Cen ter i n Randolph, Mass. She says
that her only regret is her first marriage. though she d id make up fo r it i n her second . She loved to write and fo rtunately was able to fu lfi l l that love t h rough her
3 - y e a r c a reer as owner, e d i tor and reporter for the
Independent.
McDonald
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Bridgeuiarer
Helen Dresser
' 2 3 resides in W a te r
vi l l e , M a ine . S he taugh t h i g h school Engl ish for 2 5 years, w i th a br ief h i atus to raise a fa m i l y . A t 9 3 s h e c o n tends t h a t s h e s t i l l has
a lot of t h i ngs to do and reople to ee and attempts to stay p h ys i cally f i t b y walk ing w i t h t h e a i d of her c a n e . The only t h i ng she wi hes she were s t i l l doing is d r i v i ng h e r own car. . . Paul W . Gates '24 i s happ i l y m a rr ied to
O l ive Lee G a tes. He has fo u r c h i l
dren a n d 1 3 grand c h i l d re n . H e re t ired from Corn e l l U n ivers i t y
in
1 9 70 a n d is n o w d o i ng some
wri t i ng . . . b u t is not expec t in g to rai e h is income leve l 1 At 93 he doe
a good d e a l of work in the
Cornell l ibrary and enj oys h i k i ng in the woods .
. . . Donald Free man '26 has been happily mar ried to Isabel Freeman for 68 years
and enjoye d a fulfi l l i ng career as a teac her, principal, s uperinten dent and communi ty worker. A local newspaper c las ified him a one of the 50 people who had
' 2 9 re
Carolyn Herrick Crit:
more than 3 00-year h isto ry .
Stanley C. Brown '26 is ret i re d ,
sides in
her h ushand. R i c ha rd . She en
spends h i s t i m e prac tic ing the
j ,1yed a c a ree r a, a n u rse, ancl her
from
<l
re t i rement home ll' ith
piano and the organ and endea\'
of 11·hom g rad u a t ed
ors to stay phys i c a l l y fi t b y exer
U n i\·ersi ty ofiV[aine a n d o n e 11·ho
f ontsteps with careers i n the rnell i
c is i n g and w a l k i ng each day. H e
gra d uated
c a l fie l d . Tn kee11 ti t , s h e anll h n
rec a l l s the e x c e l l e n t sc ience rro
fondh· rec a l ls h i , assoc i a t ion 1Y ith
hu sband enjoy halln1om danc m,g
fessors Colby had and say;,, " P rn
the Zeta Psi frate rn i ty , saying that
anll w a l k i n g the path, in the i r
fessnrs W h e e l e r , S tanley, Perk i ns
he fe l t tremend m1-; �'ride for the
retirement h,ime .
and Chester took the t i me tll
a c :icl e m i c a c h i e 1·ements of h i s
Good
c l arify t he i r s u bj ects c onsider
b rothers. H e a lso attribu tes in
regrettell m arrying Dora thy, h 1 '
ably."
ey '26 h as a c lose relationship
large measure 11·hate\·er succe::-s
11·ife u f
he a c h 1e 1·ed as a student tl) the
h<ffe two c h i l d r n a nd r11·0 1< ra nJ
w i th her fa m i ly . Her three lbu,l!h
supen· i s i < ) n , encouragement and
ch i l d ren and are prnud
ters and fi\'e grand c h i ld ren keep
clisc i p l ine he recei\·ell from the
i n c lose conta c t w i t h her anll a l l planned to spend Christma;, a t her h o m e in W e s t Medfo rd, r.lass.
Allen
. .
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Edith Grearson Mon
the
from Colhy. C<impbe l l
upperc lassmen . . . .
Alice Paul
'29 i s reti red after teach
ing m a th e m a t i c-; for many years .
ch iklren ha 1·e foll owell in her
. . . Vinal G.
'29 say,; that he has nn·er
fam i ly.
)LI
years. Together they
nf t h e i r
a n l l a l l , ,f their ,ucc e,se:,.
Good was appointed assistant post j udµe all nKate at Fmt Georl!e
G.
M eade in /\ ! a ryland ,l u r i ng Wnrkl
She stays fit by e a t i ng rrnpe rly.
She says that the b e s t dec i s ion
\XI ar 1 1 .
keeping busy and exerc ising d a i ly .
she e\·er made was to a t t e nd
c areer of la1Y and sen· 1 c e as a
On e thing she wi shes she c o u kl
Colby. Her son. J a mes, i s a pro
me mber in [he M a i ne H uu,e
u(
do
fessor a t Cal � tate-Northridge i n
Rcpresenr a t i \·es.
+
m o r e l)f is
garde n . . .
.
work
in h e r
Ruth E . Dow ' 2 7 o f
He has reti n�LI fr,)m a
N tH t h r i d g e , C a l i f S h e s t a y s
THIRTIES
N ob leboro, M a i n e , though par
phys i c a l l y fi t hy tak ing exerc ise
t i a l ly l' l i nd, s t i l l c arries on her
c lasse,; and 11·alk i ng .
genea logi c a l i nterest in all Dn\\·
Higgins
' 2 9 ret i red f m m New
Mabel Dolliff Craig ' 30 doe< 1wt
fam i l ies. She has 1 4 fi l e drall'ers
ha\·e much to say except [har she
of 3 x 5 c a rds with inform a t i l m
England Te lephone in 1 9 7 3 . H e m1�1· s p e n d s h i s t i m e [' l a y i n g
a b o u t i n d i \· i d u a l s t h a t she u s e s rn
b r i d g e , read i n g , d o i n g c h u rc h
enjoying l i fe i n P i lg r i m P l ace
update the now 1 , 000-page BoLik of Dow. She rec a l l s fo ndly Pro
w o r k and 11'Qrk ing i n the Mason
R e t i re m e n t Home aft e r m any
Lodge. H e has rn·C: ch ildren, three
\·ery a c t 1 1· e years . . .
fessor Dunn of the Eng l ish De
grand c h i l d r e n and fi\·e gre a t
Chadwick
partment, who helped her to wri te
grandchildren. H iggins would l i k e
H a : c l , r a i s e d rn·o d a u g h t e r s ,
and to me mori:e an essay after
t o send best w ishes for good health
whose offspring gladdened their days. H e srent four years as a
.
. . Philip R.
and her husband, Andrew , are
. John A.
'30 and his l a te ll'ifc.
her original essay on the need for
and happi ness to a l l Colby people
a new gymnas i u m for the girls
but espec i a l l y to the 5 0 - r l u s
grade sc hOl)I t e a c h e r , 11·as i n
was deemed u nacceptable be
group.
Y M C A work for a b o u t 4 0 years
Ruth Bartlett Rogers
'29 res ides in a n u rs i ng home i n Oxfo rd , M i ss . Her daughter, Mary
cause i t would l e t the a l u m n i k n o w o f t h e p o o r fac i l i t i e s . . .
.
and ended
his c areer as \' ice prin 14 years.
c i pal ofa h i gh sc hool for
Marion Daye McKinney ' 2 8
Lou Owens, says that she is in
\Ve a t h e r p e r m i t t i n g , he l i kes
is grateful that s h e recei \·ed her
e x c e l l ent phys i c a l cond i t ion d e
walking to stay i n shape. .
master's in phys i c a l educ a t ion a t Co l u m b ia U n ivers i ty beca use i t al lowed her to enjoy a career
sp i te suffering from an A l:he i m
. Bob Stirling ' 3 1 says he c annot think
er's- re lated d i sease. Owens a l so
of one bad dec i s ion h e has made.
adds that her mother 10\·ed Colby
In
teac h i ng physical educat ion at
and, if able, would lo\·e t o keep in
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mini�ter in Maine, Vermon t anJ Ma:,sachw;ett . W 1 rh rhree chil dren , 10 granJch i lJren anJ 1 3 grcar-grnndch i lJren, he rema ins Yery hu,y 'imply enjoy ing his fam ily. He keeps fir by walk mg o\'er a m i le each Llay and ;ay, that he wi he::. he were as young as he feels . . . . Ch risto T. Nasse ' 3 2 says that r h e he>t deci:,ion' h e ever made were t o mn\'e ro Florida and to marry his second wife. Beatrice, after the !-)::,::, of hio wife of more than 50 year,. He has t\\'O c h i ldren, both of whom are har pily married. He i · rak mg advan tage nf ret i rement by rlaying shuffleboard anJ briJge and rak ing a calculus class at Dayruna Community College . . . . Donald M. Christie '32 says that the best decis ion he ever maJe was to marry h is wife, Dorothy. They have rwo ch ildren and two grand children. Christie enjoyed a 3 5 year career a s a teacher, princ ipal and superi ntenJenr. In 1 99 1 he conc luded the rask of organi:ing a Christ i e fam ily h isrory . . . . Bar bara ] oh nson Alden ' 3 3 - a y that rhe he:,t dec i ions she ever made \\·ere going to Colby and marry ing her husband, John. Together -he and J ohn had three children, 10 grandchi !Jren and two great grandch i ldren. A Iden now spend:, her t i me a ttend i ng a cla s a t Merrimack Coi lege and volun teering. To keep physically fit, she regu larly walks and rides her bike. . C. Malcolm Stratton ' 3 3 married Dorothy tratron in 1 993 after the death in 1 9 7 of his wife of 53 years. Together they hare eight granJch ildren and two grea t-grand c h i ld re n . Stratton h a d served f o r over 30 years in the U.S. A rmy when he ret i red as a colone l . Now he spend his t ime doing volunteer
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\\'Ork at his community ho pital. To keer phy.ically fit, he wa lks at least one mile a day . . . . Ellis M. Anderson '33 'ay> that he can nm ar this time tell what the best decbion he ever made was be caL1'e he !:>till ha. many deci:,ions rn make and hopes to he making them for many years to come. Anderson has one daughter and rhree granddaughters and spends much of his time writing hi- mem oirs. He tries to stay healthy by excrci::-ing wirh wcighr- . . . . Char l o tte
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recenrly celehrareJ her 50th wed d ing anniversary with her hus band, Ne:,ror, her son and his family. She Joe> not have much to say ;:ibour her life except thar she and her hu,hanLl live quietly, thankful ro be able ro get up each morning . . . . Anne Tuck Russell '34 i- enjLiying traveling to differ ent places in rhe UniteJ State wirh her husband, Frank. Afrer years of reaching English ar the ninth grade leve l, she ha- retired ro reading and playing bridge twice a week. She also would l ike to add rhat he is glad the O.j . impson t r i a l i:, O\'er. . . A r t h u r W . Stetson ' 3 4 says rhar t h e b e r de ci · ion he ever madewa- hi choice of a mate, Helen, 55 years ago. Together they have two chi ldren and ix grandchi ldren. tetson retired in 1 978 a a legal consult ant in the Deparrment ofVeteran's Benefits in Washington, D.C. He now spend his time doino mechanical and decorative repairs on h is home. He also serves on the board of trustee a secretary at an associate reformed Pre byterian church, where he is an elder. Fol lowing by-pass surgery, Sterson keeps in shape by bicycling, walk i ng and being chief vacuum op erator in his household. +
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tured speaker at the 44th annual mee ting of the M a i ne Ret i red Teachers A:,sociat ion. She ·poke on "What I Have Learned From My tuden ts." . . . George Nickerson ' 2 4 a n d hi wife, Ruth, posed for a Central Maine Morning Sentinel camera as they prepared for a turkey supper to benefit the Mid-Maine Homele helter in Waterville . . . . Charles "Chick" Howard A. Miller '40 Naw fel '3 7 and Howard A. Miller '40 were inducted into the Waterv ille Area Boy and G irls Club Inspirational Hall ofFame . . . . Ruth Crowell Knight '42 repre ented the College a t the inauguration of Bernard Knorh a president of Loyola Un iver ity in Baton Rouge, La.
MILEPOSTS Deaths: Allen C. Hodgkins ' 2 3 in Eastport, Maine, at 9 5 . . . . Russell M. Squire ' 2 5 in Waterville, M aine, at 93 . . . . Carl R. MacPher on '26 in Abington, Ma s., at 9 1 . . . . Ena True Carson '27 in Epson, N . H . , at 89 . . . . Arline Mann Peakes ' 27 in Gorham, M aine, at 89 . . . . Philip R. Higgins '29 in pring field, Ma s., at 87. _ . . Robert E . Seamen ' 2 9 in Wood tock, Conn., at 8 . . . _ Roderick E . Farnham ' 3 1 in Bangor, M aine, a t 85 . . . . Margaret McGann Merrill '3 1 in kowegan, Maine, at 8 5 . . . . Roland McCann ' 3 4 in M iami, Fla. , at 86 . . . . Otis B. Read J r . ' 3 4 in Baltimore, Md., ar 84 . . . . Harold M. Salisbury ' 3 5 in Rochester, N . Y . , at 82 . . . . Robert C. Thomas ' 3 8 in Ell. worth, Kan., at 80 . . . . Paul G . "Duke" Winsor ' 3 8 i n Kennebunk, Maine, a r 8 0 . . . . Kenneth G . Stanley ' 3 9 in Brielle, N . J . , at 7 8 . . . . Ruth St e b b i n s Cadw e ll '4 1 i n Doylestown, P a . , at 7 5 . . . . Nassur A. H a s a n '4 1 in Bra intree, Mas ., ar 76 . . . . Geraldine Stefka J ones '4 1 i n Needham, Mas ., at 74 . . . _ George Carothers '42 in Zephyrhill , Fla., at 78 . . . . Shirley Wagner Lerette '42 in Augusta, Maine, at 74. . _ . Madeleine Hinckley Gibbs ' 43 in Bethel, Maine, at 74 . . . . J eanice Grant Keese '43 in York, Maine, at 74 . . . . Ruth MacDougal Sullivan '43 in Dus eldorf, Germany, at 76 . . - . Pauline Seekins Blair '44 in Dover, N . H . , at 7 3 .
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Nancy Jac obsen
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got so many notes that writ i ng the cla s news is a j oy. I heard from many people not heard from before. Keep it up . . . . The phone rang, and it wa Dotty Du nham Hobbs m ew Hamp h i re, giving me ne\\'� of the SOth reunion commi rtee m e e t i n g in Port l a n d . R u t h i e Lewin Emerson , Betty Scalise Kilham a nd E m i l y H o l b rook Pelissier all sat <lown at Roma's
Re taurant, drank red w ine and planned wonderful rhing for our big reunion in )une. Dot says, "Be sure to tell them-it's for free: the College pays for our room , food and fun." We are treated a the superior folk we are; after all, we survi ved "the War." Remem ber the cadets, ten-cent Saturday movie at the Opera Hou e, Oon ies, fish w i th red auce on Friday and the big n ight M is· N ichols got u all steak for d in ner. Dot ays she till has her Colby black skunk coat up in the rafters, and kid have taken i t to many a football g a m e . Dor' mother died a day before her 9 5 th birthday, and we had a hort d i cu sion on how healthy we each were and whether we want to get t o be 1 00 . . . . A u s t i n Ryder wrote from West Chatham, Mass., where he and Betty have retired. H is bu iness was retail lumber products. Their daughter Eliza beth got her M.A. in nur ing. . . . Courtney Simp so n and his wife, Dot , w inter in Port Char lotte, Fla. They are golfer and each got a hole-in-one last um mer at Yarmouth, M aine. He is a retired denti t and ays, "See you all a t the reunion." . . . Mary Strait Smith, Roselle J ohnson Tharion and J oyce Theriault Howe l l , who were Colby room
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mer place on Loon Lake, N . Y . , in the Adirondaks. M ary' h usband, Don, cooked, c leaned and gave them boat ride while they caught up. "H ighl ight of the summer," she said. J oyce lost her hu band , Dav id, in 1 99 2 and no\\' is plan ning to move back to Californ ia, where her k ids are and no\\' i n't. . . . Hubert Smith' wife, Eleanor, wrote from King ton, N . H . , that Hubert had d ied on A ugust 6, 1 99 5 . They had four children, six grandchildren and fh· e great-grandchildren . . . . At age 7 1 , I now have the nose I always wanted. Come and ee at our 5 0th reu n ion. Bring photos and other memorabilia. + Correspondent:
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Mary Hall Fitch
Ir was good to hear from many of the men this time. Donald Klein i a professor of p ychiatry at Colum bia U n iversity and director of re search at the N ew York tare P ychiatric Institute. Hi wife i a professor of p ychology at Col um bia and d i rector of clinical p y chology at the same p ychiatric insti tute. They have five daugh ter : a surgeon, a lawyer, an econo m ist and two psychiatrists. ( Th is i a generat ion of ac h i e v i ng women ! ) Don says he hasn't kept up with the cla , bur he ha many fond memories. Many of us re member hi setting the pace in biology and chemistry classes. He is president of the National Foun d a t i on for Depressive l l lnes , which attempts to educate the public on the nature and treat ment of panic and depre- ion, and he has co-authored a book, Un derstanding Depression, which is selling well. . . . Bradley Maxim is retired and spends many enjoy able hour s inging in a madrigal group and playing ba clarinet in a wind ensemble that plays cham-
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ber mu ic. Occa ionally he acts a an e cort at a reproductive �er v ices clinic. One ofhi� two daugh ters works for the state of Texas, and the other teaches biology at a J Lm ior college. H is two grandchil dren are now teenagers ( and he added the comment, " hudder, hudder," to which l think many of us can probably relate) . . . . Who ·ay that Colbyites don't cont inue their education long beyond their college year 7 Stanley Levine went back to chool in h is 70th( ! ) year and earned an M . F.A. degree in 1 99 3 . He is no\\' working as a museum docent. He advise us tn keep moving or be painted in with the woodwork. H is wife e\'idently keeps moving, too, and 1 a dealer 1 11 rare books. Their children and grandchildren are scattered all o\·er the country . . . . After retir ing a· d i rec tor of l i braries at tanford University, David We ber en·ed three more year� a· a part-time consultant/advi or. He is till involved with helping to establish a statewide library er v ice network and was recently in Istanbul for meet ing of the Inter national Federation of Library As sociations and Librarie . Now he volunteers in e ight non-profit or ganizations in the an Franci co area, includi ng erving as a docent for regional nature walks and h i ke . He and hi wife have recently attended an Elderhostel at Denali Park, Alaska, and plan another one in Costa R ica . . . . Charlotte Hanks Dumas ha- had intere t ingand varied career ranging from biochem ist at Harvard Medical chool to many year of teaching. Now she is involved in genealogi cal re earch and is a member of both the Rhode Island and local genealogical ocietie . he is also a j un ior membership chairman of the R . I . Mayflower Society and secretary of the Nathanael Greene Chapterof the DAR. She poke to the Ea t Greenwich Pre ervation ociety on the l ife of an ance rral
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aunt , Susanna W illard Johnson, horn in 1 7 30, ll'ho spent f our years in capti\·ity with the Ind ians, wa. taken to Montreal, and finally exchanged by way of England. usanna was descended from imon Wi llard, who wa· a founder of Concord, Mas· . , a n d whose son, Benjamin, wa, a well-known clock maker. lntere tmgly, John and I l ived for 36 years in Concord, where our children arrended and 1 taught i n-the S i mon Willard School. . . . I hope to hear from more of you �oon. + Correspond en ts: David and Dorothy Marson
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We received a good response to our most recent quest ionnaire and hope that you enjoy the news. . . . Hazel Huckins Merrill classifies herself as a retired cot tage owner at Newfound Lake in East Hebron, N.H. She writes that retirement i great ! . . . Paul Choate is a retired lawyer living in Auburn, Maine. H i three chil dren i nclude his on Andrew, who graduated from Colby in 1 979. Paul's wife, Virginia ( Yorke ' 3 9 ) passed away i n 1 99 3 , a n d h e has since remarried. . . George Kren wri tes from Manhattan, K a n . , t h a t he is a professor of h i tory and his wife is a painter and pro fessor of art . . . . Evelyn Helfant Malkin l ives i n Wayland, Mass. ,
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and is an oncology soc ial worker. She de cribed going to Oregon this summer for the wedding of a young friend and then two days later flying to Paris for an excit i ng week with her oldest grand c h i ld, who was tudying French and art. She also wrote that she had j ust completed an annotated bibl iography for cancer patients and their famil ies . . . . Gordon Miller has now been retired about 1 3 years. He and his wife, Jane, live in hrewsbury, Mass. He has three children and two grand children ( we hope we interpreted that message correc t l y ) . Also there i a H ollywood ralent agent i n the family. Gordon says he has logged 25 or so W i ndjammer c ru ise in the Caribbean with the "k ids" and lots of golf at the Worcester Country lub. H e misses the fraternity connection a t Colby . . . . Betty C o o m b s Myers wrote a lengthy summary and a most apprec i ated per onal note. She has 12 grandchi ldren. She rook a five-week trip to New Zealand, driving on the "wrong side" on both island and then snorkel i ng on the Great Barrier R e e f in A u s t ra l i a . . . . J a c k Kimpel l ives in West Lafayette, I nd . , and classifies h i mself as a long-re t i red b u reaucrat. J ac k wrote that h e and his wife, Frances ( Benner '49) j ust came from a week-long family reunion, and his c h i ldren came with seven grandchi ldren. ( He added that it
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was quite a fruitful courtship that began at Colby . ) The Colby sticker on his car occasionally attract the attention of a Purdue grad student who migrated we t from Waterville. Thanks for all the news and the humor, Jack. As you pointed out, it was obv ious that you majored in penmansh ip at Colby . . . . Sanford "Sandy" L e V i n e wrote from Boynton Beac h, Fla . , saying that he i mo tly retired but still represent a few compan ies j u·t to keep busy. He is v ice president of the World Council of ynagogues and has seven grandchildren ranging in age from 1 to 1 1 . He has some chron ic back and arthritic prob lems but says that he refu es to let them keep him down . . . . This year Dorothy and I once again sai led ro Menemsha on Martha's V i neyard t o v i s i t B e t t y and Marvin Joslow. They now l ive
year round in Gay Head. Marv in is a volun teer fireman, and al though we were at a peaceful mooring, the night was punctu ated by the chatter on his radio from the control point. l think Marvin may keep the dam thing on even when he goe to bed. We grilled swordfish and did a li ttle damage to some catch-a pic turesque top, a brill iant unset and valued fr iends of many years. Marvin promised tO write us a detai led report on his life on the Vineyard . I t must be an epic of some sort because we have yet to see it. Perhaps it will arrive for the next edition of Colby . . . . Thanks to al I who wrote. To those of you who found these notes enjoyable, why not contribute to the next ed i t ion by writing to u ? We can't print everyth ing you send, but we will do ur best to se lect the most interesting part . +
NEWSMAKERS G e n e Hunter ' 4 8 wa honored at a testimonial dinner in
outh Portland, Maine, a an out randing coach, athletic director and role model for young men. Hunter coached basketball at South Portland High chool for 26 years; in retirement, he coache an eighth grade team . . . . Cyril M. Joly Jr. '48 was elected to the Waterville Area Boys & G irls Club Inspirational Hall of Fame.
MILEPOSTS Deaths: Barbara Foley F e l t '49 in Woburn, Mas . , at 6 7 .
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Charlotte Crandall Grave and Bob and Dale Avery Benson joined for a n ice luncheon. Dale was on her annual trip norrh from V irg i n i a Beac h , V a . , v i s i t ing friends and relatives . . . . I haven't received any questionnaires yet, so I haven't much news of the rest of the c lass. We want to hear from you-espec ially those ofyou who weren't at the reunion.. +
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Barbara E a terbrooks M a iley 0 Lincoln Avenue South Hami l ton, MA 0 1 982 508-468- 5 1 1 0
Bill and Penny Thresher Edson 3 2 5 3 Erinlea Avenue N ewbury Park, CA 9 1 3 20 - 58 1 1 805 - 498-9656 1 95 5
J ane M i l lett Oornish 9 Warren Terrace Win low, M E 049 0 1 1 95 6
Eleanor Edmund G rout RD 3 , J one Road, Box 28 Gouverneur, NY 1 3642-9504 3 1 5 -2 8 7 - 3 2 7 7 1 95 7
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This column is based on a new questionnaire with only two questions: 1 ) h ighlight of your life since graduation from Colby ? and 2 ) what new things d o you dream of doing in. thefuture? . . . H ighlights for John Linscott, Annandale, Va. , include running in 19 Boston Marathons; being a working jazz mu ic ian; biking solo 1 , 500 m i le through Holland, Germany, Oen. mark and Sweden. H is hope now is to run his 20th Boston Mara thon in 1 996 . . . . Marie Donovan Kent, Canton, Mass., a nurse at Norwood Hospital, has three high l ight -her three son . And, she adds, " I am so proud of them." . . . David Miller, Plainview, N.Y., is on the executive board, Heidewij Environmental Service. He trea sures "actually making a living as a geologist." H is dream is to sur vive to attend our 50th c lass reunion . . . . Oscar Rosen, Salem, Mass., wrote that since 1 990 he has been the national commander of the National Association of Atom ic Veterans, a nonprofit , charitable, educational organiza tion that eeks to obtain adequate compensation and medical care from the Veteran Administra tion for veterans who were ex-
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posed to radiation while in the service, e pec1ally during the at mospheric resting of nuclear weap ons from 1 945 to 1 96 3 . He also has been editing the quarterly Aromic Veceran Newsleccer ince 1 990 and has turned out more than. 20 issues. Some of you may recall that he used to write a weekly col umn, "Yogi Speaks," for The Colb'I Echo. While at rhe Univerity �f Wisconsin he wrote music reviews for the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal and also began to take voice lessons and music courses while tudying history because he really wanted to become an. opera singer. He decided to stay with history but sang opera leads with an amateur group in Berkeley and musicals with another in San Fran ci co until 1 964. He says he still sings in the shower, is in preny good shape at the youthful aae of 73 and has recenrly resumed rak ing tae kwon do. M uch of the inspiration for what he i doing now, he says, is the result of h is three year at Colby when J u l ius eelye Bixler was pre ident. Deborah Smith Meigs, Danville, N . H . , retired after 3 1 years as town librarian.. She l ists h ighl ights such as serving for 10 years w i th the fire department, serving a captain and being the fir t female cerrified firefighter in New Hampshire. The family genealogy she ha worked on for years has been published, and now she would l ike to go to England and Scorlan.d to visit birthplaces and do more re earch. . . . Mark Mordec a i , N e w ton Highlands, Ma s., gives his occu pation as small goods manufac turer, tennis teacher and skiing teacher. Now he wan.ts to "break 80." . . . Shirley Raynor Ingra ham, Clearwater, Fla., has been working with Latchkey Services for Children, I nc . H ighlights of her life are the honor awarded her son for puttLng Colby's endow ment information on computer. Her trip to see the Bach Tower in
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Winter Haven, Fla. , was "worth the l ifelong dream." Now she dreams of being a great organist, traveling world wide and playing "not only Bach but boogie." W ith her income from thi dream she would establ ish uperior child development centers . . . . G u y Mcintosh, Tempe, Ari:., has re tired from the Department of In d ian Affairs. Highlights of hi life ince graduation from Colby are the mapping of the United States and Equatorial Africa, working with the Hopi and Apache Ind i ans for 2 5 years and owning a dude ranch in Colorado. What Guy wants to do now i to travel to Asia and outh Africa . . . . ]. Ed ward Martin wrote on hi ques tionnaire that he was a physician and in the antiques and art busi ness. Ed's wife lipped a newspa per art i c le about Ed into the envelope with h is questionnaire. From this I learned that Ed has had a family practice for 35 years in h is hometown of Rumford, Maine, that he has delivered over 2 , 500 babies and that three of his children have become physician . In the article Ed quotes Lou Gehrig who once said, "l think I am the luckiest guy in the world." . BJW says acknowledge your high l ight , dream of your furure, hare yourself with your cla srnates and come to reunion!
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Very recently i t was brought home to me that 1 99 5 is the year when many of us reach our se niority: ret i rement, Medicare, enior d iscounts, children who are in their 40 ( wasn't that j ust us ?). Nevertheless, my mail indi cates that the Class of '52 isn't paying much attention to all that! As Carol Leonard wrote from Dover, N .H., "Retirement is won derful, but 1 wonder when 1 ever found t i me to work. " She plays tournament bridge, volunteers as a trustee for a ret irement home for the elderly, gardens, cans and freezes and has taken on a new French poodle puppy . . . . Geor gia "Betsy" Fisher Kearney sent a letter from A labama j ust as he was about to leave for China as a delegate to the I n ternat ional
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Conference on Women. Betsy has b e e n ac t i v e for d e c a d e i n Planned Parenthood and thereby i n women's issue . . . . George "Lum" Lebherz travels daily in h is capac ity a a Massachusett d istrict judge. He, l i ke many of us, has taken up golf. . . . Many of our number al o are building new homes, as we may have done ome 30 years ago. Some are ful fill ing lifelong dreams of li ving on the ocean. Bob ' 5 1 and Nancy Weare Merriman are in Rye, N. H. D i c k and Bev B a k e r Verrengia h a v e settled in Rock port, M a s . J i m a n d J a n i c e Vaughan Crump are o n the Gulf of Mex ico. Dave Morse and wife Joan are in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where Dave ays that he and Joan are act i ve on arts foun dat ion boards. He has started a writer's group about to render a + reading of their work.
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now retired dean of the col lege emeritu , Mitch ell College. He and h i wife, Joan (Chandler ' 5 5 ) , are enjoying re tirement, spending winters in Florida and ummer in New Ha ven, Conn. Dave says they re cently c l i mbed i n the G rand Canyon.They have three children and two grandsons. Dave does coun eling; in fact, just fini heel a pre ident of the Connec t i c u t Counseling Association. . . . Al Hibbert is also retired, o he golfs every day now. Two of h is sons work for the tare of l llinoi , an other son is in the electrical busi ness, and h is daughter i a school teacher. Al and h is wife returned to New England in May when Al was inducted into h is high school port hall of fame. While there he wa reunited with fellow players and coaches who had not seen one another for 45 year . They visi ted Priscilla Eaton Billington and h usband Ray ' 5 4 . From Somerset they set off for Maine to v isit Dot (For ler '54) and Roger Olson, who had ju t built a new house in the Monson-Moo ehead Lake area, then saw Martha ( DeWolf '55) and Phil Hussey, who had j u r retumedfromGreece and were repacking to go to
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China . . . . George ' 5 2 and Betty Winkler Laffey enjoy the be t of both retirement world , spending ix months in Chatham on Cape Cod and the remaining ix month in Vero Beach, Fla. They recently welcomed their fourth grandchild. . . . John Lee is now a contract tour guide in the Washington, D.C, area. He recently attended the dedication of the Korean War Memorial and now likes tour-guid ing veterans and familie to it. He al o keeps bu y teaching part time at Virginia Commonwealth Uni ver i ty, Richmond; and the re erve offers him more activities. John's daughter recently moved to Madrid, pain, o now he has h is own bed-and-breakfast when he ha the time and extra money to fly there. John say anyone in the Wa hington, D.C., area should contac t h i m for expert tour guid ing . . . . Bruce McRoy sent a note from North Carol ina, saying that he plan to retire by the end of May 1 996. His wife, Sandra ( ivert ' 5 5 ) , is now a retired third grade teacher. He and Sandra spent a week in Switzerland last May and a week in Chatanooga, Tenn., inJ une, attending Virginia Tech's annual Civil War seminar. . . . Mike Wechsler Pressman has developed an integrated program of Engli h, humanitie and oc ial studie , which he has presented all over the state ofNew York. On the trength of it, she received several awards and an NEH fel lowship to tudy Mozart in V ienna and was to receive a New York State Teacher of Excellence Award. M ike and her husband love to travel. In 1 995 they went to Vienna, Prague and Bratislava and then on to Hawaii. M ike says she is not ready to retire . . . . Art Klein, however, i very happily retired. Art' wife, Marianna, sent him to cooking school as oon a he retired; now he too makes the kitchen h is space. They spent a week in Bermuda with hi Colby roommate, Roger Huebsch, and he i till very much involved with the N .Y.C. Colby Club. He has twin daughter , both married, and three grandchi ldren . . . . Ted Lallier l ives just 20 minutes from me, and l alwayspas h is office j ust around the corner from my daughter's home in Arne bury. Both he and his wife keep bu y in the bu iness of law. They enjoy
their winter trips to the Virgin Islands and ummer relaxation in their econd home in New Hamp shire. . I heard from S a l l y Mathews MacLean, who added that she d id orne traveling in the outh, then headed we t to Monterey, Calif., to attend a emi nar. She still keeps her hand in counseling and does not antici pate retirement oon . . . . 1 wrote a note to Craig Bell months ago, and when he answered he prompt ly let me know he was known as "Pete" at Colby. He said he was an executive director of information services with the National Ex change Carrier As ociation until h is retirement in 1 990. Pete says he comes to my neighborhood every May to march with the American Legion Po t in the Memorial Day Parade. We hope to get togerher then. . I received new of Folkert Belzer's death recently. He had sent me a nice note about his family a while back but never mentioned the many contributions he had made to the field of transplant urgery. He re ce i v e d m a n y award for h is work . . . . I received o many let ter and po t card that if you do not see your news in this issue, it + will appear next time. Correspondent : Bill and Penny Thresher Edson
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There is actually a hint of fall in the California air. The pumpkins are on the doorsteps and an occasional tree ha leave that are turning red, orange and yellow. Not exactly the beauty of a New England October, but we try to pretend . . . . Beverly Barrett Nichols write from La Mesa, Calif., where she and her hu band, Robert, a former profe or at SUNY-Buffalo, are "happily retired." They have six children (her four and hi two) and a total of 1 2 grandchildren. he write , "We decided after living in Buffalo for 30 year or more that we deserved the very best c l imate we could find. We love San Diego." Bev' son, Bob Templeton Jr., i an attorney in the area. Her other k ids are in Albuquerque, N.M. Bev see Judy Thompson Lowe and her husband about once a year. They were plan ning to meet in San Francisco in early September, following the
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Lowes's tripto Hawaii . . . . Accord
is an inst it ut ional food service
ing to Dot Forster Olson and her
supervisor at a long-term care fa
husband Roger ' 5 3 , "retirement is
c i l i ty. Model railroading, photog
wonderful." She retired last year as
raphy and gardening w i l l occupy more of his t i me if retirement
di trict office manager/teacher for H&R Block, and Roger retired 1 2
begins next year. Mosettig Levesque,
all on theirown. She said, "We live
Va., writes of the memorable ex
Jack Alex '50 is a member of the V isiting Committee of the
pringfield,
U n i ve rs i ty o f C h icago Law
half a year in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
perience she and husband Paul ( a
play lots oftennis, summer in Maine
U . S . government re tiree) had at our 40th reunion. She remark
at a new cottage on Lake Hebron and play lots of golf." Sounds like the be t ofboth worlds to me! They
organization of the event and by the camaraderie and school spirit .
a n d Marilyn a n d Ed Fraktman ' 5 3
S h e says he' ll easily b e conv i nced
. . Dick Noonan,
to re turn . . . . Moving to Marl
retired USAF, and his wife, Ann
borough, N . H . , in early '96 is in
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( Burger ' 5 3 ) , are living in Colo
the plan for retirees John and Dot Dunn Northcott. The ir
daughters, one son and six grand
on Evan was in the Class of
children. Number seven was due in
1 98 2 , and Dot was in Maine this u mmer v is i t i ng Kathy Flynn
planned to travel to Seattle for Christma to meet the new baby.
Carrigan in Rockland. I t was a
Dick recently has seen Charlie
avoid Freeport traffic and went " around . " . . . If you were in
Windhorst and Bob Hudson. . . . Philip Reiner-Deutsch is an Amtrak travel clerk in Los Ange le , "still working in customer ser vice office at L.A. Union Station," he writes, "primarily coordinating motor coach dispatching and ar rivals from Bakersfield or Santa Barbara." . . . Thanks for all the news, and keep it coming!
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Retirement seems to be a recurring theme for us. Pat Levine Levy
presentative to the inaugura t i o n s of new p re s i d e n ts at M itchell College, St. J o eph' College and Kenyon College, resp e c t i v e ly . . . . R o b e r t B .
long drive when Dor decided to
Manhattan's Union quare Park one fine summer day after re un ion, you might ha\'e seen Don
appointed a research fellow at the U n ion Theological Sem i nary in Richmond, Va . . . . Lee Fernandez ' 5 5 was elected member of the year by The Theatre Historical Society, a Chicago-based preservation group. Fernandez is a 1 5 -year et eran volunteerat Boston's 1 92 8 Keith Memorial TI1eatre . . . . Sid Farr '55 was elected to the Waterv i l l e Area Boys & G irls Club Inspirational Hall of Fame.
Hoaglund p l ay i ng his pocket
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trumpet in an impromptu Dix ie land j a:: gig. From Ma ine to New York to Cal ifornia and Costa Rica, Don continues to travel.
Marriages: Marian Woodsome Ludwig ' 5 8 to Wolfe E . Springer in Falmouth, Mass.
sometimes writing travel com m e n t a r i e · for local newsp a pers . . . . Pete Parsons continues to enjoy working with rudent both as a profes or at Holy Cro and at a "young people's" camp summer . L i ke many of us, h is travels include visits rn children and grandchildren in Arizona and
Deaths: J ohn J . Miles '50 in W i rtz, Va. , at 68 . . . . Robert A. Stander '50 in Lafayette, La., a t 6 7 . . . . Annalee Nelson Bohjalian ' 5 1 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., at 6 5 . . . . Robert F. Staples ' 5 1 i n Amber t, N . H . , at 69 . . . . Robert M. Harris ' 5 3 in Asbury Park, N .j . , a t 7 7 . . . . Harold A. Leathe ' 5 3 i n Danver , Mass . , at 66 . . . . Gilbert B. Sewell ' 5 3 i n Prescott, Ariz . , at 64.
Californ ia. He writes, "Life i great with many opportunities, many responsibilit ies." . . . Judy
we think, and i t is time to really put some dates down on the cal
ratory therapi t . They frequendy see Paul ' 5 3 and Estelle Jacobson
Holtz Levow u ed her interior
endar for reunion. I hope you have already done so, but in case not, here they are again: J une 5- 7
writes of her husband ( now re
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'The lee Core Time MachLne." The project extricated the longest and oldest ice core in the Northern Hemisphere from a glac ier in Greenland . . . . C. Freeman Sleeper ' 5 4 has been
ing as a c laims person until 1 99 7 . Husband Sevy Levy ' 5 3 is a respi
ber Anne McGowan Kubic, who lives in Charlestown, W.Va. She
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Writer Conference . . . . Chief photographer of the lee Core Project Ned Shenton ' 5 4 has edited a film documentary titled
say she plans to continue work
Ostrove . . . . Many of you remem
Ned Shenton
Parker ' 54 was keynote speaker at the Fourth Annual Newport
rado Springs, Colo. They have five
November, and Dick and Ann
School. . . . David Harvey ' 5 3 , Jean Pratt Moody ' 5 6 and John Ziegler '56 were Colby's re
that Paul was impressed by the
visited with Pat and Al Hibbert ' 5 3 while in Maine .
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Beverly
years ago. Their three children are
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design talents in decorating an 1 85 8 showhou e in Belmont. She praised the cooperation of H ugh Gourley and Lee Fernandez for the loan of several W i nslow
but reunion 3 5 was so great that I am counting the days to our 40th and am enclosing the names of those attending or planning to at this ti me in the fall. Definitely coming: Richard Abedon, Hugh
Samo et, J une 7 -9 Colby. Class President J ea n Pratt Moody write that " Plans for the BIG
Anderson, Grace Mainero A n d r e a , Hop e Palmer Bramhall,
tired from the U .S. State Depart
Homer's ( pan of Lee's donation
EVENT are progressing well. "
Jane Collins, Katherine Coon
ment) and six c h i ldren. Anne
rn the College) for the library she
left Colby after her sophomore
decorated i n the showhouse .
J ean also has sent me news of Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue.
Dunlop, Lucy Blainey Groening, Nori Edmunds Grout, Bill Haggett, Barbara Preston Hayes, Frank Huntress, Martha Meyer Kugler, Don Kupersmith, Mary Ann Papalia Lac cabue, Peter
year to attend Columbia's nur -
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. . Chick Marchand has been
Mary Ann's third grandc h i l d ,
ing school. She, too, has retired but volunteers for Hospice and
mayor of Somerset for 35 years.+
M ichela An ne Laccabue, arrived last September in Dallas, Texas.
rai es sheep! As a non-grad, she wonders if she's been long-for gotten by her classmates-not o, l have rea sured her. It was great to have her questionnaire . . . . Hugh MacDonald writes proudly of his .and Lillian' four c h i ldren. Hugh is i.n Brockton, Mass . , and
Mary Ann retired from teaching Correspondent: Eleanor Edmunds Grout
in J une 1 99 5 and i enjoying re
Lunder , John and Joan Williams
tirement. She and her husband,
Marshall, Janet Nordgren Mery
Ron, and daughter Andrea toured southern I taly and Greece late in
weather, Shirley Verga Montini
It is the first cold morning of the fall
S e p t e m b e r and e a r l y O c t o
Larry Pugh , Robert Raymond,
eason, and t he d ay is
ber . . . . N ow I don't want y o u to
Don Rice, Charlene Roberts
Halloween eve . J une i closer than
think I have a one-track m ind,
Riordan, Liz Russell Collins,
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of two gab in their 60s; the rest of the crew were in their 30. and 40s. Hope's intere ts are certainly varied. She told me she also man ages the Colonial Dames Tate House in Portland, the oldest house and museum run by volun teer; . . . . Bob and Dodi Aikman Adel write that they are sorry they will nor be able to attend the 40th reunion because they will be on a "Grand Alaska" trip with V ictor Emanuel N a t u re Tours, ce lebrat i ng their 40th wedding ann iversary. he said, "The amoset was lovely the last time and we are pleased you are offering it again." They report that they have been traveling a lot, doing bird ing fest ival and enjoying retirement. The ir fam ily is fine-and they are the proud gyeat-grandparents of two.
Charlotte Wood Scully, David
and Rosie Crouthamel Sortor, Dave Van Allen, Kathleen Vogt, Harry and Lynn Brooks Wey, Sue Veghte Wilson, Bill Wyman, Kathy McConaughy Zambello, John Ziegler and J udy Pennock Lilley. Hoping to come: Charles Brown ,
J oanna
McCu rdy
Brunso, Bob Erb, S u e Miller Hunt, Carolyn Graves Nelson, Karin S l avin Reath , Charles Rice, Ann Stiegler Richards, Ron
S a n d b o r g and G e r a l d
Silverstein .
. . . Had a nice chat with Hope Palmer Bramhall, who is on the reunion committee, and there w i l l be someth ing fun planned for sure. Hope and Peter are j ust back from a barge trip in France. For her 60th birthday she took an Outward Bound eight day sailing cour e. Hope was one
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I 've used all the letter l received as a result of my omewhat per an al ized letter of August 1 994, and if some of you till haven't seen yourselves in th is column, l th ink this is ue of Colby will remedy that. By now you must have re ceived the new questionnaire. If you respo n d , I should have enough raw material for another year' worth of columns. Even if you feel you j ust answered me, humor me and keep me up to date ! . . . Tom LaVigne runs
LaVigne Press in Worcester, Mass. H is wife, Ed ith, is a home maker, and they are busy keeping up with daughters' graduations: in May 1 99 5 all three girls re ceived degrees on the same day, one from olby, one a master's from U of Maryland and a third an M . B. A . from the J ohn on School at Cornell. Their son, Rob, was also married in that month . . . . G a i l and R o b e r t Hesse are now retirees living in Centerv i l le, Mass. All three ons have graduated from college, one from Colby, one from Bates and one from Wa hington & Lee. Although "retired," he now finds time to spend with a granddaugh ter and with Rotary as well as to read (something he ha threat ened to do since Colby ) . Bob credits fraternity life at Colby
Fashioning a Life in the Arts Bsteeped in the arts before arbara Starr Wolf '50 was
arriving at Colby in 1 946. She attended her fir t opera at age 1 2 and took cour e at the Boston Museum ofFlne Arts while grow ing up. "The art were very im portant in my family," she said. N ow a chamber music impre sario in Braz il, Wolf has dedi cated much of her life to visual art, c lassical music and culture in South A merica, where she has lived for the past 3 5 year . Despite living on the other side of the equator, she has maintained a close relationship with Colby, attend ing her 4 5 th reunion last summer and maintaining regular correspondence with her cla smates as class agent for many year . Wolf recalls Colby in the late 1 940s a "a very good l iberal arts college that left me well prepared for life in the art . The instruction I received in foreign languages, music and art helped very much," she said, "e pec ially when I went to Europe in 195 l ." A history major with courses in world civil ization, European history, English l i terature and Spanish, he al o was president of H illel and a member of the Inter-Faith Associ ation, busines manager of the Echo and president of the Women Student ' Government League. "It was j ust after the war and Colby wa a more in ular place than it is now," she said. The College had separate governance structures for men and women, but Wolf cred it Dean of Women N inetta Runnals '08 for bringing a r'.leasure of equ ity to Colby's women's program and for being a mentor and role model. "We [the women] had a lot more rules and regulation then, but she treated everyone very fairly." Following her graduation and a brief stint working at Harvard's Widener Library, Wolf became a sportswear and acce orie buyer for her parents' firm, Anne Starr Inc., which ran women's specialty hops i n Wellesley and Quincy, Mass. From 1 9 5 2 to 1 960 she traveled to Europe each year as a buyer for Anne Starr. I n 1 958 she
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organized a "Colby N ight at the Bo ton Pops," where the late Arthur Fe idler gave hi baton to Peter Re, director of the Colby Symphony, who conducted his own composition, "Variations on Airs by Supply Belcher." Colby N ight at the Pop continued for a number of years. Her marriage in 1 960 to Wolf Wolf took her to Bueno A ires, where she immediately jumped into Argentine cultural c ircle , coordinating program for university students and arranging tours of museums and art collection . During the 1 960s, she arranged programs in Buenos A ire on arts and opera, organized lectures by the likes of Jorge Luis Borge and with her hu. band wa involved in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusett . The Wolfs moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the late 1 960s, and in 1 97 7 Neiman-Marcus a ked Barbara Wolf to organize and coordinate the store's "Brazil ian Fortnight" in Dalla . Her experi ence in fashion and her work in the art wa a perfect combination for pull ing together the Braz i l ian products, arts, crafts and cultural programs. The Dalla how led to a position a director of an export firm that became the exc lusive buying agent for stores such a Mar hall Field's and Saks Fifth Avenue in the U.S. and Eaton's in Canada. More recently, Wolf organized photography exhibits at muse ums and galleries in Brazil and Argentina, organized a variety of cultural tours in South America and, since 1 982, represented foreign cla sical musicians performing in Brazi l , Argentina, Co lombia, Chile and Uruguay. Among groups she has brought to South America are the Melos Quartet from Germany and the Takacs String Quartet from Hungary. She has arranged tours for J ean-Pierre Rampa! and the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, and in 1 994 she organized the first South American tour in 25 year for Isaac Stem. Th is winter she wa busy working on a 1 996 tour by Maurice Andre, who has not been in South America in the pa t 10 years. Julia Adams, a member of the Portland String Quartet and a perennial artist-in-residence at Colby, reported that Wolf re cently came to a P Q concert in Sao Paulo for an impromptu Colby reunion and that they have remained in contact since. "Her enthu iasm for Colby was so strong ! " Adams reported.
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with instilling in him a sense of community that carried over into h is involvement w i th Rotary . . A n o t h e r re t i re e i s L o i s Macomber, who does not m iss her work with taxes and i nsur ance and instead has expanded her activities a t her hostel, over seas trave l ( Norway from " tip to toe" ) and volunteeri m . . . . One of my be t correspondents is J oho Edes, who lives in Smithfield, R . I . , w it h h is wife, Valerie. J ohn is a registered representative for the National Association of Se curities Dealer . S ince last being in touch, J ohn has a new grand son and new dog. In response to "gaining or losing the e day ," John replied, "Lo ing-weight. Strict diet so I can look younger at the 40th reunion." He credits Colby with giving h i m self- moti vation and self-reliance as the re u l t of a knee injury that ruined his senior year athletically. From that experience J ohn realized he would probably have many other ob tacles to fa ce and overcome. Colby taught him to be a "survi vo r . " . . . Caroline H a l l H u i has been out in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a long time (l last v isited her there in 1 9 7 7 ) and i an adult education teacher. Her h usband, David, is a program manager for Argo Systems. She doesn't con sider her elf retired, j ust "putter ing." She teaches needlepoint, cross s titch and knitting and feels guilty being paid for doing some-
thing she loves. Daughter K i m , a h igh school senior, is interested in pursuing a career as a ballet dancer and is c urrently looking a t schools . . . . Peter Doran is a professor of health education at the U niversity of Maine-Farm ington, and h is wife, Loi , is a homemaker as well as the Bel grade town health officer. Last year she received an award for o u t s t an d i ng h e a l t h e r v i c e . . . . Connie Rockwell Ward and her husband, Warren, l ive in Portsmouth, N .H., and have three grown children and four small grandchi ldren. She is a book keeper/ secretary, and Warren is retired. Most of their time now is spent overseeing the building of their new home . . . . That's all, folks. Please do take a few min utes to get to that questionnaire. If the specific questions bother you, don't feel obligated to an swer them; j ust the bare fa c ts will do. I 'd like to hear from you. This column would be blank if you didn't answer, so I depend on you. I hope 1 996 is a happy and healthy year for a l l . +
my best to consolidate. ( Remain der of the c lass: please take note and try to be equally responsive for our next column ! ) . . . I nsur ance a c c o u n t manager P a u l La Verdiere sti II enjoys those wonderful M aine lob ter and says he's get ting younger by the day. Could there be a connection, new-grampa Paul ? . . . Floridian Pete L o c kwood i exec u t i v e director o f New Beginnings, a j un ior h igh renewal program sponsored b y the Ep i s c o p a l Church. Earlier this year Pete returned to M aine for the first statewide New Beginnings week e n d . . . A a r o n and C y n d y Crockett Mendelson are fixing up their new home in Long meadow, Mass., while Cyndy con t inues to represent The Apple Basket clothing collection and substit ute teaches at a middle school. . . . Bruce Montgomery has relocated to Colorado after ret iring from Ford Motor. Bruce and Tricia are enjoying their two daughters who live in Colorado, but a t i me-share in Ogunquit per mit an annual return to Maine. . Lloyd Cohen keeps in touch with several Colby alums and, with his fa m i ly, paid a recent un announced visit to our beloved campus. I m ag i ne his surprise when he spotted "Lloyd Road" j u t opposite First Rangeway ! . . . Mary Ranlett Mossman and husband Philip have made many trips away from Maine. They have
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An n Marie Segrave Lieber
W ish I could pass along every word of the won derful re pon e I re ceived from this fifth of our class, but s ince that's impo sible I 'l l do
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children ( and grandchildren) in Florida, Connect icut and France. . . . Wendy ( Ihlstrom '6 l ) and Bob Nielsen work together at Nielsen and Wigder, their insurance bro kerage. Bob ays hi hair is getting gray; I can identify with thatl . . . Bachelor B o b Keltie is a con sultant to mall bu ine e and an adjunct instructor at Florida At lantic Univer ity. He still play ice hockey ( i mpressive ! ) and ref erees four or five games weekly . . . . J im Plunkett ha completed 3 1 years in Peru, where he has trav eled through the Andes by VW, owned a small hotel, founded a donut shop chain and directed an o v e rseas program s i m i l a r to SCORE. Now he's general man ager of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, a paying job with an organization for which he formerly volunteered. Threeofhis four children are in the United States while h is lawyer daughter remains in Peru. Thank for a great letter, J i m ! . . . My call igraphy business continue to be active, and my chorus is preparing for its annual series of Messiah concerts in New Jersey and at Carnegie Hall. Our daughter Beth, a recent Colgate graduate, ings with the chorus also as well as playing vio l in in a local amateur (excellent) symphony orchestra. . . . If you haven't written to me recently, how about a contribution for our next column? All good wishes for a happy and healthy '96. +
Alumni Trustees Nominated The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council has nominated four alumni for alumni trustee positions, with terms to begin thi year at commencement. Nominated for a second, three-year term is Ellen Haweeli '69, Old Greenwich, Conn. , president of EBH Associates, Inc . , of New York City. As trustee, she serves on the Development, Nominating and Student Affairs Committees. Haweel i also chairs the Women's Leadership Task Force, is a sponsor of tudent interns and previously served the College as an overseer. Also nominated for a second, three-year term is Joseph Boulos '68, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, president of Boulos, I nc . , a real estate, management, a n d development firm i n Portland. A trustee and former overseer, Boulos serves on the Invest ment, Nominating, and Executive Committees, and chairs the Physical Plant Committee. Albert Stone ' 5 1 has been nominated for a renewable,
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three-year term. Stone lives in Groton, Mass., and is president of Sterilite Corp . , which manufactures plastic products and custom molding, in Townsend, Mas . He currently serves as an overseer for the College. Nominated for a two-year term ( to complete an unex pired term and realign the alumni tru tee terms) is Audrey Hittinger Katz ' 5 7 . An overseer, Katz, who l ives and works in Silver Spring, Md., i v ice president at Dara-Prompt, I nc . , a company which provides data processing service . In accordance with the by-law of the Alumni Associa t ion, other nominations may be made by peti t ion to the executive ecrerary of the A lumni Counci l with the signa tures of one percent of the members of the association on or before March 3 1 , 1 996. If no nominations by petition are submitted, the above candidates shall be declared elected by the chair of the Alumni Council.
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Richard W. Bankart 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 Westwood, NJ 07675 20 l -664- 7672 1 966
Ru se ll N. Monbleau 3 Lovejoy Road M ilford, NH 0 3 0 5 5 60 3-6 7 3 - 5 508 e-mail: monbleau.russell@a l . mkots l . mko. mt .dee.com 1 967
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A questionnaire went out soon after Re union Weekend, and a welcome response came from several of you. Unfortunately, the column only has room for h igh l ights . . . . Linda Mackey Foehl contmue to teach ki ndergarten at a public school in herborn, Mass. The piano, she ays, re mains very much a part of her teaching and leisure life. She and Bill '59 have four chi ldren and four grandchildren ( two sons are succ essful profe s i onal mus i c ians ) , and they are still i n The Centre Streeters band, which is still going trong after 19 years. They have renovated an old ch icken coop on their property i n t o a t e m porary record i ng studio . . . . Al ' 5 9 and J u stine Brown Gengras are now living in Alton, N . H . J u t i ne is a project archaeologist for New Hampshire contract project , which involves direct ing research and writing technical repons. Al is director of college coun eling and an En gl ish teacher at Ti lton chool. J ustine writes that after 30-plus years of "on-campus" residence at a boarding school, they have moved to their own "off-campus" residence and joined the "com mu t e rs c l ub" and the " re a l world." . . . R o n Gerber wrote
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from an Diego. He is pre�iJent of Gerber l nve ·tment Corpora tion and partnerofVietnam Elec tric Partner . He says, " I 've made even trips ro Vietnam since the embargo was lifted in February 1 994. Doing business with these fine people make me feel fa r bet ter than when I served two tours there ( '64 and '65 ) as a destroyer officer in the U . . Navy. Build ing is better than destroying." . . . Tony '57 and Bev Jackson Glockler live in Belle Mead, N.]. Bev is an emergency med ical techn ic ian, and Tony is with Educational Testing Service. Bev said, " I r was great to be back at reun ion ! More people hould try it." . . . "Bo" Haggett, who is in the second year of hi human resources management and con sulting business, wrote a long let ter after reunion. They have three children and 1 9-month-old twin grandsons. Bo writes that "per haps the mo t significant, educa tional and interesting aspect of our l ives since my Colby years has been the opportunity to live and work in several parts of coun try, including Ma ine (of cour e ) , N e w Hamp hire, Ohio, Wi con s in and New Yor k . " . . . J i m Haidas is t h e owner o f Cooke's Restaurant in Hyannis, Mass. He and his wife, Frances, moved to Ostervi lle in August, "a great town at a great spot." He aid the tough part was that they had j ust sentbothson offto Milton Acad emy . . . . Doug ' 5 8 and J u d y Ingram Hatfield l ive in Hill borough, N . H . A couple of things happened this summer, said J udy, that have changed their lives one being that their youngest graduated in J une, o this fa ll wa their first wi thout a tuition pay ment since 1 979! . . . Judy Miller Heekin was feeling well enough after a second round of chemo to travel to Cape Cod to v isit her 94-year-old father and do some ance tor hunting in Maine with
her daughter, who is an attorney in Oregon. J ust before ending this column off, l talked with J udy and learned that her father had passed away the night before and that ·he i now on her third round ofchemo, which he says is more gentle than the other . We all wish her well in her fight to regain good health . . . . Bob and Liz Chamberlain Huss are in Moretown, Vt., where Bob i a professor at Champlain College and Liz is a retired teacher doing private tutoring and consulting. They celebrated their 3 5 th anni versary in eptember and have two grand ons. They regretted not being at the reunion, but they were raking their boat from Lake Champlain down the canal, down the Hudson River, around New York City and out Long Is land Sound) to the Vineyard. . . . An update from Gail Carter Fergu son. who with husband Gayne is continuing on their long voyage, brought word that they man aged to encounter the i r fourth natural disaster i n a s many years ( the previou three being the 1 992 Malibu fire, the floods the following year and then an earthquake ) . Thi year's adven ture was an encounter with Hur ricane Luis when they docked in St. Martin. Gail writes, "There is no more awesome, or terrifying, p e c t a c l e t h a n n a t ure gone wi Id." . . . Ted '61 and I traveled to California in eptember to attend the wedding of our son and aw Steve Levine '59 and Dave Bloom '59 . . . . I am sure that many of you still have blank questionnaires. We would all love + to hear from you. Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sullivan
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Soon you will be receiv ing information from Colby about our 3 5 th
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reunion. Thank to tho e of you who responded to the que t ion naire. The committee met m Sep tember and et a number of goals for the Class of '6 1 : at least 6 1 members o f the class should at tend the reunion, and 61 percent of the class should participate in rai ing a total of $6 1 ,000 as our reunion gift to Colby. David Ziskind, our hard-working presi dent, would like to hoot for 6 1 percent o f the class a t reunion, but that i the one goal that may not be attainable. The others are I Bob Burke ha as embled a large committee to ensure that you are contacted by someone in the class whom you knew who will encour age you to participate, at what ever level you can. Remember, you do not have to have gradu ated from Colby to be part of the reunion party! We welcome all who were ever a member of the class. The committee voted to have the c la s activit ies start, at Colby, on Wednesday, J une 5 , o you can arrive any time that is convenient for you. Ac tivitie will be scheduled for ju t our class during tho e fir t t\vo days, before the other cla ses arrive. . . . Peter Stevenson write from Haverford, Pa., to confess that the reason Karen Johnson Fenton '63 remembered all the ATOs whose nicknames had been used ( H e ig h t - a , Dopey, S q u i rr e l , Goomba and Torang) i s that he (Height-a) dated her back then. On behalf of the entire crew, he wants to invite her to our 3 5th reunion and promi es to supply a fir t-clas ticket. Welcome to the Cla s of '6 1 as an honorary mem ber, Karen! He also has a sugges t i o n of an a c t i v i ty for t h e reunion-auction offTorn "Red" Evans . . . he will have to tell you the "rest of the story." . . . From Connec t i c u t , we heard from Nancy Schneider Schoonover,
who owns, with her husband, J ack, a company called PR Data y terns. They expect to sell the bu ine and retire in the next year, so, Nancy, please update us on your status . . . . Also in Con ne c t i c u t i C a r o l y n E v a n s Consolino Albrecht. As you can ee, he remarried in April, and he sounds very happy. She saw John and J ill Williams Hooper at their on's wedding in September. If her younge t son's graduation
NEWSMAKERS R e t ired Rear A d m i r a l T e d Lockhart '6 1 spoke on 'The Navy, The World and Haver hill" at the Haverhill, Mass., Rotary Club. . . . Cynthia Dunn Barber '62 recently purcha ed h istoric Smugglers Notch Inn in Jeffersonville, Vt. . . . Ralph A. Bradshaw '62 was named president of the Federation of American Societies for Experi Ted Lockhart '61 mental Bio logy . . . . S tephen Carpenter '62, c ha i rman and CEO of the United California Bank, was featured in an ed ition of the Los Angeles Business Journal last fall. . . . Ro ge r B. J eans J r . '63 is E lizabeth Lewi Otey Professor of East Asian tudies at Wa h i ngton and Lee U niversity in Lex ington, Va. J eans also represented Colby at the inauguration of Washington anJ Lee's new president, J ohn Elrod, and Barbara Howard Traister '65 did the same for the inaugu ration ofJohn Stra sburge r at Ur inu College . . . . Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 i the new c h ief exec utive officer of the Hartford Ballet . . . . Richard M. Pious '64 was appointed to the Adolph . and Effie Ochs Cha ir in A merican Srudie and H istory at Barnard College in New York . . . . Stonebridge Pre s Inc., a new company formed by David Cutler '65 and John Coors, has purcha ed the Worce ter County ( Mass. ) Newspaper . . . . Joseph Boulos '68 ha teamed with Edward Haddad of Boston to form Boulo Advi ory Service , offering real estate ervice . . . . Sari Abul J ubein '69 took ome ribbing in the Bosron Globe' "Names & Fa e " column for being een repeatedly at a health club after year of d isdaining such establishment . According to the Globe, Abul-J ubein "got out hi winter clothe one Saturday . . . and d isco ered to h is horror that the pants no longer fit."
MILEPOSTS Marriages: Irving Faunce '67 to Jan Collins in Kennebunkport,
Maine. Births: A on, Brian J ason, to J ud i th and Richard Riemer '68. Deaths: Rus ell B. Graves '63 in Valrico, Fla., at 54 . . . . J oan L . Nelso n '63 in Worcester, Mass., at 5 3 . . . . Martha B e ck Webber '67 in Carabas ett Val ley, Maine, at 5 2 .
from Colgate does not interfere, she hopes to be at the reunion. S i n c e he and her husband, Knute, have seven c h ildren and even grand c h i l d ren and she works at The Whitney Shop in New Canaan and Greenwich, she ha a busy Life . . . . Amy Eisen trager Birky live in Lincoln, Neb., where he i an elementary school media spec iali t. She trav eled with Lynn Ehrlich '63, who attended Colby with us in 1 95960, to aipan, Mariana Island . he had taught there 30 year ago. . . . Bill Swormstedt checks
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in from Merrimack, N . H . , where he is a senior buyer in the Osram purchasing department. He hopes to be at the reunion and see Bruce T u r n e r , Sandy G ra h a m and Hans Veeder. He regularly ee Bob Gannon, who manages a ser vice station in Sharon, N.H . . . . Hank Sheldon write from the Chicago area that he is now a captain with United Airlines, fly ing w i de-bod ied DC- 1 0 . He spend time at their condo in Park City and is looking for a retire ment place in a warmer c limate. He and his wife, Elise, often get
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and Marilyn Blom Evans, Regina Foley Haviland, Tom and Dotty Boynton Kirkendall, Cici Clif ton Lee, Diane Sherman Luth, Helen Johnson Mcfarlane, J udy Parker Millen, Pat and David Marr, Ed Ruscitti and Anne Lovell Swenson. Looks like we'll
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panish teacher, got her master' - m 1 99 3 . Her husband, Bud, retired from reaching English in eptember 1 994, but Parch say it's at lea t five more years to a decent retire ment for her-she spent 14 years at home raising their five kids, and it rake longer to build up rho e retirement years. Son Jeff, ba ed in Quantico, is a Marine helicop ter pi lot who get to fly the presi dential helicopter; Chris is a Navy upply officer on the John Paul Jones; Brendan i a manager of an Diego's Restaurant in Plymouth, Mas .; Tiffany got her ma ter's from the University of Maine Orono in 1 994 and is now work i n g in t h e h u m a n re o u r c e d e p a r t m e n t of G rand C i rc l e Travel in Boston; and Erik is a 2 1 year-old college tudent. Patch and Bud have two new grand ons . . . . Cathy and Tony Mainero also are grandparents for the fir t time with the birth of Grant Andrew last April. Tony is senior VP and general manager of Lee Hecht Harrison, a management con ulting company , and Cathy i a director of religiou education. Tony is also the administrator of a 5,000-per on pari h and preaches every weekend. Cathy and Tany rook their three grown chi ldren on a grand tour of pain and I taly
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for five week inJune and J uly . . Dedra and Hank Phillips'sdaugh ter Traci was expecting in Janu ary. Hank is a trade development manager, and Dedra is a director of nursing in Pottstown, Pa. The Phillip es have had recent trips to Magarita and Aruba, where they have taken up wind surfing, and planned an October trip to Scot land. Hank said he saw Dick Leiser a few years ago and i look i n g forward to e e i n g R i c h Nobman . . . . Gary M i l e s is a professor of hi tory at Cowell Col lege, the Univer ity ofCalifornia Santa Cruz, and wife Peggy Bone Miles is an instructor in ESL and writing. Their daughter, Melanee, married in J une 1 99 5 and is now a permanent re idem of France. Gary served three years as chair of the hi tory department and re cently publi hed his second book, Livy: Reconsrructing Early Rome
(Cornell Univ. Press, 1 995 ) . He also won third place in the Ha waiian State Long Board Surfing Championship in 1 99 1 . . . Rich Simkins celebrated his 2 5th year as president of the Grog Shop, Inc., which includes the restau rant in N ewburyport and and Newbury Pere n n i a l Garden . Rich and wife Patric ia, who is VP of Grog Shop and owner ofT own and Country of N ewburyport,
have traveled recently to Ch ile and Co ta Rica. Rich invites ev eryone to stop by and vi it. ( As I mentioned before, m aybe we could include a visit to the Grog Shop and Newbury Gardens prior to our 3 5 th in Waterv i l le in 1 997 . ) . . . Richard Mittleman is an attorney, and wife Linda is a real estate broker in Providence, R. I . They have two grandchil dren. Dick purchased a new boat in May and ay he enjoyed a great summer on Narragansett Bay . . . . Bill and Alice Webb celebrated their 2 5 th wedding anniversary this year and spent eight days at Prince Edward Island-the same place they honeymooned. Alice and son Michael, who is getting into the theater bu iness, were both in a local production of Hello Dolly. Alice still sings in the ch urch choir and local choral groups. She also belong to the Republican Town Committee in Reading, Mass . . . . Lael Swinney Stegall still lives in Washington, D.C. , and is now president of So c ial Change International, her own international consulting ser vice working in the former Yugo slavia with women leaders in the Balkans. Her husband, Ron, is doing international development in Russia. The Stegal ls' son, Skyler, is a senior at Wheaton
College, and daughter Shana i a Hollins College graduate. At a rec ent reunion in Deer I s l e , Maine, with Nancy Kudriavetz Ramsey and Patty Downs Berger, the consensus was that all were better than ever a far as brains and beauty! Lael planned to attend the Fourth World Con ference on Women in Beijing, China, last September. . . . Anne Ticknor McNeece is a special ed teacher and find that as each year goes by she has more interest out ide of her job and home. Anne' hu band, Robert, is a sys tems analy t, and between them they have two sons, two stepsons, two stepdaughter and three grandchildren. Christopher and Chuck both married this year. . ! ju t got the mostdelightful letter from Mike McCabe, which I'll save to share next time . + Correspondent: Sara Shaw Rhoades
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Judy Fassett Aydelott is such a satisfa ctory corre pondent. Every couple of years she sits down at the typewriter and bangs out a good two-page letter catching me up with her fa mily and remem bering whatever wa uppermost
on my mind the la t time we met. She is a good role model! Any way, her daughter was married at the Mount Washington Inn last year, and son J ack '9 1 is now engaged to another Colby grad and will be married at the Col lege chapel next J une. She also reports that at long la t business has turned around at the radio station and is looking ro y. J udy, like so many of us, is involved with aging parent and grateful for all the family events that still include them . . . . Craig Millett and her hu band are pastor and co-pastor of Pilgrim ' U n ited Church of Christ in Leesburg, Fla . , and are enjoying every minute of it, espec ially con truct ing their church's first building, which they expect to be a unique structure with two monolithic dome and an atrium connector. I'm looking forward to a picture when it's finished . . . . Jon Pit man reports that both his chil dren ( Marc and Shelly) graduated from Gordon College last May and that Marc was married a week later. These events completed a year of highlights that included a trip to I ndia and Nepal for Jon, Marc and helly. They visited leprosy colonies and hospitals, spent time with the bishop of the Southern I nd ia Church and even
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hen M ike Tschebull '6 3 wa studying history at Colby he never imagined that he would one day be buying pieces of it. A world-renowned dealer and collector of antique Islamic carpet , Tschebull is a leading expert on 1 8th- and 1 9th-century folk art weaving of western Iran and the Caucasu . "I grew up with these rugs and inherited them," Tschebull said. "They have always held a special place in my l ife and [ feel lucky to be able to make my living talking about and working with these extraordinary works ofart." Hi cachet is such that the government of I ran has repeatedly invited Tschebull to present papers at symposiums in Tehran. He was one of a handful of Westerners-inc luding only three Ameri cans-who partic ipated in a two-day conference la t Augu t , h is second symposium in I ran since 1 993. During both visit , Tschebull has been given extraordinary freedom to explore I ran. "We were not controlled," he aid. "We wandered Tehran at will and wen t into the countryside to see some
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of the archaeological treasures of l ran." Among the highlights was a v isit to Isfahan, an anc ient c ity that Tschebull described as "an architectural masterpiece." He says that contrary to popular belief in the United States, average I ranian are not hostile toward American , although there remain ome "ritualized" antagoni m from government officials. "We didn't encounter any anti-We tern hostility at all," he said. An ongoing economic embargo again t Iran by the U nited States everely l imits the purchase of any I ranian product by American c i tizen or entities. "The odd thing about the embargo is that it generally applie to I ranian artworks regardless of when they were made, no matter that they have been out of [ran for many years," Tschebull said. As a result, he ays, the embargo inhibits imports of old carpets from Europe or the Middle East. Tschebull majored in European history at Colby, an academic path he says built upon a desire to live and work abroad. He spent 1 0 years in Germany and Spain working for Banker Trust and later worked for Credit Sui se in New York City. He left in 1 989 to run h is own busine s, T chebull Antique Carpets. However, he had establi hed h imself a an expert on I ranian carpets long before then-as a collector ince 1 96 5 and as curator for a show in 1 97 1 . "There i s a lot w e can learn about Iran b y learning about the e carpets," Tschebull said. "They offer a glimpse into a culture that is often mi understood by the West."
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\' isi teJ two hour with Mother Teresa. He write , "What a beau t i fu l per on-What a s i m p l e phi losoph y ! " . . . R a y Perkins re port that he has recently had his econd book publi ·hed. l t is titled Logic and Mr . Limbaugh. 1 wish he had given us an excerpt. 1 lot•e the t i t le . . . . Morgan McGinley is editorial page ed i to r of The Day in New London, Conn. , and his wife is edi tor and writer for Ml's tic Coast and Country Magaz:i �e .
Their oldest ha graduated from Fordham, their middle child i a j un ior at Fordham and the young est is i n h igh school. . . J o h n Pomeranz owns two businesses on N antucket: an envelope d is tributorsh ip and a landscaping bu ine . He has two grown sons and a daughter in school. . . Brian ' 6 3 and Sue Sawyer McAlary have moved t o aoinaw, Mich., where they are both work ing in anesthesiology and have a granddaughter born May 4, 1 99 5 ! Sue report that "life begins when the k id leave home and the dog d ies ! " . . . J oh n Oaks writes that he has been e lec ted v ic e pre i dem of the American ociety of Parasitologi ts, which "i the first of four pos i t ions that will lead to a uming the presidency in 1 9 9 7 . Although thi will involve a great deal of work for the ociety, it i an honor to be e lected by col league from the U.S. and outside our border . 1 w ish some of the individual re ponsible for this success, particularly Prof. Thom a Ea ton of Colby' B iology Department, were here to hare the pride ! " He adds, "P.S. Heard that Larry Dyhrberg is back af ter a year in Poland teachi ng Engli h for the Peace Corps ! " Larry, plea e check i n with your + class corresponden t ! Correspondent:
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Lanky Lew K r i n s k y and Ellen continued their New England od y sey after our reunion with a top in Burlington, Vt., "for the wed ding of a young lady whom we ho ted during her J an Plan in J an ' 9." La t fall Lew ho ted Hung Bui '94 from Colby' Admis ions Offi ce during h is two-day recruit ing trip to Houston . . . . Margo
Ott teache French a t M iddletown ( N .J . ) High School South. he i active with the Gi rl Scour- and church activities and ju t packed =1 off to Dartmouth. . . . Mike Ward, a school princi pal in Falmouth, Mass . , rafted down the Grand Canyon on hi 30th wedding anniver ary la t ummer with hi bride, Diane . . . Linda Stearns al o wa on the water la ·t um mer, taking weekly ailing lessons in Bar Harb<1r. Next summer she hopes to certify as a solo sailor. In the interim, she continues painting silk and sell ing scarves, pocketbooks, etc . , and is the purchasing agent for or oanic produce and the free:er de partment at a Bangor health food store. Linda is also a founding member and secretary of the J apan-America ociety, Bangor chapter. Last summer they publi cized and hosted a women's chorus from Shizuoka, Japan . . . . Randy Williams has new dutie at Fleet BankofMassachusetts as VP, com munity banking di vi ion. He keeps active with sailing and squash. Wedding bells for his eldest daugh ter preempted a 30th reunion with us . . . . Eliot Terborgh, who did make he reunion, commented that "despite the low tumour it was a very enjoyable time." Eliot and family pent a weekend in Lon don after a trip to Russia and Scot land. While in London he sighted a "genuine Phantom- R a l p h Bunche i alive and well. He is with Morgan Stanley Bank arrang ing financing for large infra truc ture projects. Hi two daughters are in college (one in Massachuetts ) , and hi son i in high chool. Unfortunately, the rest of his fam ily wa at their ummer home, but we hared a delightful dinner with Ralph. Believe it or not, he has not changed a bit ! " . . . The new end with hearty congratulations to our c lass p rez, Bud Marvin, who nagged the Colby "C" Club Per son of the Year honor last Home coming Weekend d uring the annual Colby N ight dinner. Bud was c i ted "for hi commitment to Colby ports over the years. He erved as chair of the Athletics Committee of the Alumni Coun cil and can be seen at numerous var ity games each year." It is not known if Bud still wears hi tradi tional "pre " hat to these event . + . . . Hail, Colby, Hail!
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Happiness may merely he the remi ion of pain. . You w i l l reaJ e l ewhere i n this i sue o f the pas�ing of G e orge S h e ri d a n Dukes, hu ·band to J oa n Mane gold Dukes. Both George and J oan wished ro expres some thought and feeling to their friend-. As thi would be our ·ide of the normal obituary format, we will share these with you here. On J u ly 7, 1 99 5 , George heridan Duke "Took his life and brought it Home." His last thoughts for his fr iends were, " [ chose when to come into thi world. And now I choo e when ro leave. Though it' not that imple, it's j ust rhat imple. See y'all on the other ide. M uc h Love , George ( Sher) . " Gifts i n his memory may b e sent to the Community Nature Cen ter, a nonprofit environmental learning center, which, although open to all, has developed spec ial env ironmental awarene pro gram aimed at children. He had upported the school as an out growth of h is support for Joan, who has been a volunteer teacher at the center and i a co-founder of a planned much-expanded fa c ility. He is survived by his wife, h is mother, two si ters, and, as he aid, "many many dear friend . " . . . Janice Holt Arsan accompa nied her hu band, Noyan, this ummer for a three-week combo business trip and vacation to Tur key. They stayed on the T urki h Medi terranean, an area formerly known a the Lycian Penin ula. J anice reports that their oldest daughter is getting married in the spring and their youngest started college this fall. According to my experience, thi is the recipe for moving rapidly from parenting through empty nesting straight into grandparenting . . . . Terry Saunders Lane i the assoc iate dean at Boston University Gradu ate School of ocial Work. he i looking forward to taking a group of ocial work graduate tudent to Denmark this coming spring to compare their programs to those of the United States, with par t ic ular focu on immigration and health care. Please report back if you discover that 1 1 month of
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winter i an immigration control measure--or is everyone com ing in from Finland ? . . . "DislocateJ Worker" i h w Ralph Record "correctly" descnhes hb current situat ion. When hi · c,1mpany de c ided to relocate out of the area, Ralph elected to pa5' and face the challenge of findmg a new career for the next five to 10 years. Ralph obserYed that the move was ju t part of the nat ional movement ro make life e peci<1lly difficult fnr those of u over 50. Ain't that the truth ! . . . Dick Dunnell, proving that rhere is life after 50, is an nouncing his impending summer wedding to Marcia Hayward after a year-long engagement. Dick i an office manager for Chubb Life America, and Marcia is a h igh school science teacher. They have ju t purcha ed a condo in La conia . . . . Carol Lordi j ust pur chased a new home in il icon Valley, Los A ltos, Calif. he i planning to move in right after the new year. . . . I received a great letter from Sue Mahoney M i c h a e l , who reports among other t h i ngs a recent trip to Brisbane, Australia, to watch and support her son, who is on the international J un ior World Champion h ip skating c i rc u i t . ( Boy, a r e y o u lucky-lately 1 only get to go to M iiford District Court to watch my kid -and it's not because they are working closely with the j udge either. l th ink it's referred to as "Rules I mpairment Syndrome.") ue recently started her own company, M ichael & Company, focused in two area , fund rai ing for nonprofit organi zat ions and magazine e d i ting. . . . That's all I can squeeze in here right now. P lease keep those questionnaires trickling in. I'm desperate for material . And remember, things are more like they are today than they ever were before. +
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Two of Mike and Pam Cooper Picher's ons are at Colby: J ean M ichel will graduate thi J une, with Gregoire to follow a year aft e r . At home in Toro n t o , Marielle i in grade six a n d Andre
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Meindl and wife Vickie live in
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Rich Larson of Cu pertino, Calif., write of tak ing a year and a
and Erica are at Brooks School, and Charles is an eighth grader. She's trying to maintain her anity with three at home and says jug gling phone time is a major ac complishment. For diver ion she plays tennis, golf and skis. She also enjoys watching sports her chil dren are involved in and plays her husband directs for Salem, N . H . , Community Theater and for h i drama class at Salem High . . Last J une, Richard Riemer and his wife, Judy, spent a week in Beth e l , M ai n e . He s t i l l finds
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White Mules ski ing the Swiss
puter security and helps govern ment and commerc i a l c l ients
Alps. Phi l runs his consulting
enhance their security programs
business from his home overlook ing Manchester Harbor in Man che ter-by- the -Sea, Ma ., and
and comply with federal laws and p o l i cies. V ic to r and h i wife, Veronica, who has sung in profes
says he welcomes old friends to
sional choral groups and i inter ested in endeavor ranging from
he wi hes he could retire per manently . . . . N ews from Bill McKinney-he's a dean of Hart ford Seminary, and his wife, Linda, is reference librarian at Trinity College. He loves his I ife and work at the seminary, which he de
took time off from his record ex
the Air Force eight year ago and
change to run a marathon in Ant
after some time as an indepen
arctica ( a feat that we assume was
dent cons u l t ant join ed Booz
accomplished during the South ern Hem isphere summer ) . This column was not notified of Ross's time . . . . Phil Kay sent a picture of a healthy-look ing group of
call him and visit. And if domes tic skiing is your choice, Phil rent
Allen and Hamilton Inc. before
Vietnam this year. He adds that
scribes as a small but dynamic ecu m e n i c a l t he o l o g i c a l s c h oo l . Travel is a large part of his life; he's
flower arranging to medical treat
his Sugarloaf house at attractive rates to those who know the first
ments and discoveries, have been married since 1 9 7 1 and live in
verse of "Hail, Colby, Hail." . . .
Alexandria, Va . . . . Bob Merrill
Sandy Miller Keohane reports that she has tarted running and competed in her first race, a dis
and his wife, Phyllis, live in Sugar Land, Texas, and have three boys:
tance of five k i lometers. Her "en chanted cottage" from the Boston J unior League show house will be in the March issue of Country Living. Sandy and Ken also have
Sutherland Paterson and her h u band, J i m, reside in Richardson, Texas, where she' an information
Grant at Southern Method ist University, Scott, a junior in high chool. and eth in eighth grade. Bob's a geologist for Unocal and frequently travels outside the
technology audit manager for Texas Instrument
enlarged the M i lton, Mass., shop Earthly Possessions so that it looks like an adult dol l house with lots of individual room . . . . Chuck
the American Institute of Profes sional Geologists . . . . Patricia
Levin has expanded and moved h i law office from Boston to
Jenks, recently separated, has re turned to Maine and i enjoying
Needham. Chuck's son Jonathan
l ife in her new home on Orr Island with her two cats, but she
M ichael is a senior a t Needham High and his wife, J o Ellen, works in real estate sales in Needham. C h u c k says h e sees G e o rge Markley frequently and that
also is plea ed to be near her sister's family in Topsham. Pat is an exhibiting artist, teaches draw ing and design at U M aine-Au gusta and is a fac ilitator for "Art
George is president of the New
from t he H e a rt " workshops.
England Council ofThe Union of
. . . South Face Farm in Ashfield, M ass . , is home to Tom Mc Crumm and his wife, J udy Haupt,
Hebrew Congregations . . . . Don Jepson and wife Dee (Thompson
'69) live in Northampton, Mass. Don has joined Strathmore Artist Products and is marketing a line of computer art papers for P.C.'s. Don and Deehave twoson , Matt,
an adult nur e practitioner, step son Jed and a black lab. (Jed is 1 7 and showing interest in Colby. ) Tom spent the month of May as extra crew on board a 1 1 0-foot s a i l b o a t t h a t d e p a rt ed fro m
David, a j un ior a t W i l l iston-
Florida, visiting ports i n Bermuda,
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tephen, 1 9, who both attend Trinity University in San Anto nio on partial academic scholar ships. Carol, who has moved from managing one of the U .S. audit groups to worldwide l .T. audit re sponsibility, visited eight Euro pean sites la t year and hoped to hit major A ian sitesthis year.She says it' a great job but wishes he could figure out how to do it in fewer hours. . . . After eight years, Hope Jahn Wetzel has moved from teaching fourth to teaching fifth grade at her Kingston, N . H . , school. She's al o having h e r first student teacher in 2 1 years of teaching. Her daughter turned 2 1
a j unior a t Colby-Sawyer, and
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and J im is a
production manager. They have two c h i ldren: Tracy, 2 1 , and
U .S., especially to Central Asia and the Far Ea t. We congratulate him on being elected president of
is a j un ior a t Colby, his son
been in 49 tates and was in West . Carol A fr i c a in A u g u s t .
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and will graduate from Carleton in Minnesota in May '96. Hope says it doesn't seem that long ago that she graduated from Colby. . . . Diana Soule Seifert has re turned to teaching as her four ch il dren are now teenagers. Megan
vacation there every year. Rich in the New York City area join the covered that the activities are var ied, many and always fun, and he enjoys meeting grads both old and rece n t l y g r a d u a ted . . . . Ted Sw a r tz i s s u p e r i n te nd e n t of schools in Mahopac, N . Y . , while his wife, Vicki, is a library media specialist. Their on, Matthew, i a sophomore at Rochester In ti tute of Technology, majoring in communication, and daughter Rachel, the artist in the family, is a h igh school ophomore. . . . Thanks for your news. Till + next time.
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Roz Manwaring An d r e w s w r i tes from Fryeburg, Maine, where
she is executive director of Har ve t Hi lls Animal Shelter. Roz notes that she takes her work home with her-she live with, among others, Spicey, Mikey and Stumpster. Sounds l i ke quite an interesting family . . . . Judith Lee Moeckel and her hu band, Jeffrey, live in Durham, Conn., with their dogs, Monty and Python. J udith i a rehabilitation counselor and is deeply involved in music tudies (piano and voice) and teaching. Judith, who is planning a trip to Alaska, reports that she feels bet ter now than at any other time in her l ife and wonders if other clas mates feel the ame . . . . Barbara Klingerman Morgan is an attor ney in Trenton, N .j . , and the m o t h e r of t h r e e b i g k i d Corrine, who works for Merrill Lynch, and Chri and Kim, tu-
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dents at Lehigh . . . . Eric Siegel tuch reports from New York that he cays in touch w ith Moses Silverman and Tom Schulhof. He remains act ive in the art world, both as a contemporary art dealer specializing in the work of young art i ·ts and as a financial planner for M utual of New York, helping colleagues in the arts plan investments. Eric's wife, to whom he says he has been happily mar ried for 24 years, manages a social service agency and ings and record classical mu ic . . . . Sha ron Timberlake was given an award i n Portland, Maine, re cently for her work to end hunger. As executive director of Youth and Family Outreach, he organ ized Teen A id, a rock concert to aid programs that help homeless youth. I n organizing the sell-out concert, Sharon no doubt called upon skills learned ar many a ba e ment mixer. Rock on . . . . The re cent focus on the Beatles and their music must have touched many of you, as i t d id me. l t wa fun to hare my feelings for their music with my on, David, who does a mean ver ion of"Twist and Shout." But 1 don't think anyone who wasn't a part of that era could under tand the poignancy of seeing and hear ing J o h n L e nnon a g a i n . . Enough nostalgia. Please stay in touch with news of your selves, families and classmates. All the best fo r the New Year and a healthy and happy 1 996. +
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If the pros pect of capital gains taxes has you fee l i ng that you can't afford to take advantage of the rise in the market, you m i g ht want to contact the Plan ned G i v i n g Office at Col by. A properly plan ned g i ft to Colby may enable you to u n lock the i n come potential of those h i g h ly appreciated secu rities w h i le benefiti ng you r Col l ege A N D avo i d i n g capital gains taxes. For more information contact:
Steve Greaves, Director of Planned Giving Colby College Waterville, ME 0490 1 ( 207 ) 872-3 2 1 2 scgreave@colby.edu
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Marty Kolonel wri tes
from Golden, Colo., that he is actively involved in running the several bu ine ses he owns. Marty "gets high" on a regular basi . No, no, no--it's nor what you think1 Marry recently received his pilot' license. And he and hi · wife, Jo Ann, have three grandchildren. Wow1 It's hard to picture all you guys who were at Big John's night after night, who did the "cloud" dance ("Hey, you1 Get offa my cloud !") in fraternity house ba ements and who froze your butts off building snow sculptures for WinterCamival having grandchil dren. I 'd like to think that even though we're aging, we till have it in us to enjoy the thing we did when we were at Colby . . . . J ohn McDonald is the a ·soc ia te di rector of the Yale University Art Gallery. In November, John gave a lecture at the L.A. County Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition ''The American Discovery of An cient Egypt." As you read this.John hould be in Egypt excavating at the site of Abydos. . . . Barbara Fitzgerald, formerly known as Bar bara Merrick, i a professional fig ure skating coach in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. Congratulation are in order for Barbara, who became engaged in October. When she and her fiance, Dale Allen Draudt, get married in June of 1 997, their blended family will consi t of six children, but she' going to keep the name Fitzgerald. Congratula tions and best wi he for succes
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from us all. . . . John Lombard is in his third year a� senior (i that another reference to age?) minister to Trinitarian Congregat ional Church, United Church of Christ in Concord, Mass. John' wife, Janet, is a panish teacher and spent la t summer in pain. His oldest daughter, tephanie, is a high school student who spent last um mer as a People-to-People am ba sador in Australia and New Zealand. And his youngest daugh ter, Julie, is a fifth grader who ex cel as an ice skater. Maybe we could hook Julie up with Barbara Fitzgerald! That would be a great Colby connection for rhe 2006 Winter Olymp ics ! . . . This col umn comes out j ust four times a year. If l heard from everyone once a year, doing the column would be a bree:e. I ' ll make it even easier for you to get your though rs to me. end me the fax of rhe '90s-e-mail! My e-mail addre s i callahan9w@aol.com. I might even an·wer you before the next column appears. Until next time, be well and stay happy. Phil Norfl e et-call home 1 + Corre�pondent:
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Nancy Hammar Austin
"Whenever I see some thing from the College, all tho e memories of good t ime come back. My years in college were probably four of the best years I 've had. It's fun to remember them every once in a while," wrote Joseph Greenman. I also remember my Colby year fond ly, and going back to the campus alway makes me marvel at what a lucky kid l was to be able to pend four year and , si multaneously, the late '60 in that special academ ic and pastoral M a i ne environment. I thank Donna Dionne, long-time Colby employee, for making my recent return to campus a memorable
occasion. Retracing my daily ac tivities, I wandered over to the Fieldhou e. I t was a great place 25 year ago, but it' truly awe ome now. Donna literally wa able to open doors for me, and her tour of the new faci 1 i ties made me once again proud to be as oc i ated with Colby. ( Did you know that the old credit card trick doesn't work on the locked door to the women's locker room 1 Annie Williamson and I tried unsucces fully, even with com petent a sistance, to have a auna one night after a hard day at the Loaf.) . . . Plans continue, under Sue Sammis Spiess' able leaderhip, for lot of fun activit ies to mark our upcommg 2 5 th reunion. Pat Montgomery, Macy DeLong
and I and the committee have worked hard on the Clas of '7 1 reunion book. Your prompt re sponses were muchly appreciated! Thanks to everyone who has con tributed ro making this project a great success. You'll ee the fin ished prod uct in j ust a l i t tle while . . . . My last questionnaire pr ompt ed a l a rge re ponse. Jacques Hermant, who e title i d i rec tor of development and chairman of the department of s trateg ic management, write from Nante , France, that hi fa vorite beach is Pornic. Jacques' wife, Jounier, is a flight prepara tion technician for Air France. Their three children are Johanne, Cam i l le and Thoma . J acque remembers the Lorimer Chapel occupation, the March to Wa h ington against the V ietnam War and the "sport" of draft dodging a happenings pecu l iar to our Colby days . . . . Ed Hanna re members becom ing a second lieutenant via the AFROTC pro gram, greasy chee eburgers at Big John's and talks with Pete and John at rhe pa ( when it wa in the library and Amy Brewer Fitts and I were queens of the "garbage scow and di h wa her." Doe any-
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NEWSMAKERS Earle G. Shettleworth J r. ' 7 0 , directorof theMaine Historic Pre ervation Commission, was the sub ject of a lengthy feature in the
Bangor Daily News . . . . An exhi bition of new culpture by Duncan Hewitt ' 7 1 was on display at ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick, Maine . . . . Dan B loomer ' 7 2 , who recently fom1ed Bloomer& Cucc i, Master Stairbui lders, i n Winslow, Maine, was the subject of a feature Dan Bloomer '72 article in Augusta's Kennebec]our nal. Bloomer's background in cu tom cabinet-making, fine fur niture and winding staircases led to the partnership . . . . "Winter Work," a diary of a day laborer by Don J. Snyder '72, was the lead story in the November 1 995 Harper's . . . . David Baird ' 7 3 wa named enior agency field consultant for State Farm Insur ance Companie in South Portland, Maine . . . . J e ri Theriault '73 i the authorofCom Dance, a collection ofpoetry . . . . Karen Heck '74 was named to the board of d i rectors of the Waterville Area Boy & G irl Club . . . . Mike Roy ' 7 4 is the new Oakland, Ma ine, town manager. . . . The sculpture of Chris Duncan ' 7 5 w a s o n e x h i b i t a t t h e Kirkland A r t Center in C l i nton, N . Y . . . . Scott Shagin '75 wa appointed chair of the New ]er ey tate Bar As ociation' Entertainment and Arts Law Section . . . . Peter Allen Luckey ' 7 5 is the new senior pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Kan . . . . Gerry Boyle ' 7 8 was named best daily columnist in the Maine Pres As ociation' 1 99 5 Better New paper Contest. . . . Andrea Dumont Handel '78, recently named educational technician at Lincoln Academy in Newca tle, played Madeleine in May Sarton' The Underground River for The Chamber Theater of Maine . . . . Robin Walmsley '78 was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. . . . Savas S. Zembillas '79 wa named priest of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in
Nancy Brunnckow Ma rion ' · old
daughters on exped i t i on trips
est, Stephanie, is "looking at col
from their home in Yardly, Pa . , to
leges but wants a warmer c l imate
sights like their favorite beach' . . . I remember William HJadky as
than Colby's. Ma rk ,
three summers and love · it." . . So, back to Marilyn M c Dougal
c l imb up flagpoles and the sides
Meyerhans and husband �teven.
of brick re idence halls ( not to the glee of admini tration offi
Did you run w the dictionary to
cials ! ) . He writes from Hartsdale,
apple grower . "Agriculture i-; a
own pre
look up "pomologist"? They arc difficult way to make a l t v mg," say
Marilyn, "but it' · hard to
imagine anything else ! Our land i our l ivel ihood. I have three
son J acob . . . . l look forward ro
riding horses and numcrou · cat�.
seeing you all at the Cla�s of ' 7 1
a small house, several barm anJ
2 5 th reunion. We are preparing
over 200 acre
special events to mark this his
apple trees ) . My only real rnm
toric time in all of our lives and to
plamt-time is speeding up1" +
of land ( 70 m
make everyone feel comfortable as part of our class's gathering. Your unique contribution to our collective elf is valued, and we look forward to remembering our + Colby day with you .
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Janet Holm Gerber Sadly, 1 hare w i t h y o u t h e news o f the death of Jane Thayer
Hutchinson. J ust before she died of cancer, Nancy Brunnckow Marion and J e a n n e Emerson Young flew to San Francisco to be with her. To her fam i ly and friends we extend deepest sym pathy . . . . The strongest theme in your mail to me i aging . . . not of our elve but of our children. Rick Leslie has j ust sent his old est daughter, Laura, off to UNC Chapel H i l l ( and with wife J ean is expecting their first child to gethe r ) . M a r i l y n M c D o u g a l Meyerhans and husband Steve
Births: A daughter, Sally Earon Meli to S . Ann Earon '74 and Robert Jame Meli . . . . A son, Bradley Raymond, to John ' 7 8 and S u s a n Raymond Geismar ' 7 9 . . . . A son, Jared Richard, to Lois and David Linsky ' 7 9 . . . . A daughter, Elizabeth J ean, to
(pomologists in Skowhegan more later) watched the ir olde t, Noah, head off to Northeastern U niver icy. Erland and J a n e t V e a s e y McLetcbie w r i t e that
Nathan and Kate LaVoie Lowell '79.
their "oldest on, Andy, is a fresh
of tho e brown coffee cups got
hn-; at
the "Mountain Man," the only
wife Diana and 2 1 /2 -year-old
Marriages: E l l e n Kornetsky '73 to Dennis P ickering in Kennebunk, Mai ne. . . . Alfred M. Sheehy J r. ' 7 8 to Susan J . Levine in Scarborough, Maine.
before they were bleached brown
1 5,
tended Colby's soccer camp for
person I 'd ever known who could
mium audit services busine s and finding great joy in his family,
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the day and how black the inside
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Black takes h is wife, Marta, and
N .Y . , of running h i
Kalamazoo, M ich.
one remember my questions of
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Peter and Rochelle Weiner Kaplan are
l i v i ng i n N . Y . C . , where Rochelle i s with Harper Collins Pub l i ·her-. They have an English pringer spaniel, Ollie, and collect books primed by the Roy Crafters. Rochelle is tudy ing computer tech at Columbia, hoping to switch careers and head for the Pacific Northwest or the Southwest . . . . Warren and Gail Howard Dent are in Washing ton state, where Gail is a regional manager for Eli Lilly. Her four stepdaughters are all in college and grad school. She did lots of traveling last summer-to Banff, Cancun and Grand Cayman 1 land, "all beaut iful places." . . . Claudia Dold Stover is in At lanta. She lists her job title as "Mommy" and has one "excep tional" 1 0-year-old son. H u band Carl is a senior engineer with GE. Claudia a n d h e r son tented th e Oregon tra i l l a s t summer, then Claudia headed to Germany to pursue herstudie in German . . Kenneth and Pamela Brownstein
Colin MacKay and Luci l le Zuk ow k i . l don't think he's alone in saying that her love for Maine is
man at Colby! He is playing foot
Lipstein and two sons, ages 1 0
ball and hopes to play hockey. He
and 7 , are i n Scotch Plain , N .J . Pam edits the N .J . law journal , i·
an important part of her l ife that started at Colby . . . . Lee Fawcett, di rector ofsystems integration for
Adams O'Neil has two children
is l i ving in Johnson and loves i t ! Colby i s even better! " Marcia
active in the environmental com
who have attended Colby: "Mich
mittee of the PTA and super vised 480 elementary rudent in
ael graduated and is working in the finance field. Meghan is a
den for Earth Day . . .
senior, biology major and rugby
Toussaint is executive vice pre i
first emester fre hman year and
AT&T, was in communication via e-mail with AT&T' profes s io n a l s e rv i ces group's P a u l Edmunds, who has recently re
player. My children grew up-
de n t o f Fleet B a n k in Connecti
professors Len Mayo, Don Small,
turned from Argentina . . .
Bruce
became a d u l t s and fr i e nds ! "
cut, where he lives with h is wife,
again ?} . . . . Nancy Gaston Fore man lives ju t two blocks from her favorite beach at Belfast on Penob cot Bay. She remember Foss Hall's all-girl's din ing room
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planting a perennial flower gar
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he birth of a baby brings ch anges in careers, in come, p rospec t s , o u t look . Janeen Reedy Adil '76 says that when her daughter, Rachael, was born seven years ago with spina bifida, a d isab i l i ty in which a section of the spine does not close properly, he had to learn to sec anew. "You have to look Jiffer ently at whether you can get in a bu ilding or not," said Adil. From curbs and parking places ro how society aid the hanJ i capped, "You look at j ust about everything differently." An art icle Adil wrote five years ago for the Hanford Couranc not only helped her clarify what being the parent of a child with spina bifida involves, it helped her to make a career switch from teaching to freelance writing. The gift of a book containing a chapter on gardening aids for the handicapped led her to examine the world of the disabled, research that culm inated in November 1 994 when Woodbine House published her book Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities.
Al though she grew up "messing around with plants," Adil said, she is "no expert. But I do know how to research, whom to talk to." Her book provides gardening d irections and instructions on how to obtain special implements. After coming across references to Libby. They have two sons, Scott, 1 2 , and Ryan, 1 0. Donald serves as trustee and executive commit tee member o fNew England Col leges Fund . . . . Priscilla Ballou is in J amaica Plain, Mass. She is project leader in applications de velopment with BU. Priscilla says she is act ive at her Episcopal church, where she share in the l ives of many people and fami l ies. She speaks on behalf offemi nist and lesbian concerns, she l ikes to surf the 'net-anony mously ! , he collects m ismatched china and hymnals, she is getting ri<l of clutter and she wishes she were do er to having a down payment for a hou e with a porch and yard! . . . Robin Hamill re cently was married to Roger Ruth, Ph. D. , in Charlottesvil le. Their family include Micah, 1 6 , Aaron, 1 3 , John, 1 2 , Laura, 1 0, J ames, 6, two black labs and a car. Robin has been promoted to associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care . . . . Ted Field works i n development soc iology i n Washington, D.C., and was i n Uganda last year conducting a n environmental education study. Ted works with the Urban Ph il-
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harmonic Society and was study ing people who have never heard live music before. He wishes he were writing novels and wishe he were not paying bills. ( I'll sec ond that ! ) . . . Phil Deford is now in Singapore, where he is enior director with American Expres Bank . . . . J udy Sidell Wester lund v isited N .Y.C. last ummer and enjoyed a meal at Libby Corydon-Apicella's restaurant, Zucchero. J udy wishes she were p laying p i ano. . . M a ry and J ames Signorile are living in Teaneck, N .j . , where J i m is e n ior software engineer w i th M i nolta Corp. Mary is a home maker. J i m plays bass clarinet with the Ramapo Wind Symphony and is composing and programm ing multimedia. They actually have no k ids and no pets. l s th is possible? . . . Steve Kelsey writes from Durham, Conn. Steve is a missioner for M iddlesex Area Episcopal Church, and his wife, Kathy Barrett, is a social worker. Daughter Rachel, 1 0, is "really into music ." Steve is also active in Habitat for Human ity and is a community dispute resolution mediator. He's thri lled to be back
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lightweight hand tools or long-handled garden hoes, for instance, she examined countless mail-order catalogues so she could supply specific descriptions of tools and company names to gardeners with d isabilities. Somebody whose only real d isabil ity is not having a green thumb can benefit from her work, too. 'There're millions with disabilities-and mill ions who like to garden," Adil said, joking that she already has collected "a small file of volume two, the leaflet." She'd like to introduce as many people as possible to the therapeutic benefits of gardening. Adil , who earned a master's in comparative l i terature at the University of Connecticut, majored in Spani h and also took creat ive writing courses at Colby. She ays she is "try i ng to spin off from garden ing" with articles in children's magazines pieces about house plant that purify the air and how to grow a pizza garden. She has publ ished Storie in Highlights, Cobble stone and Spider. Adil currently is in the beginning stages of editing a book, Children with Spina Bifida: A Parent's Guide. Despite the many medical issues she and her hu band, Thoma , have yet to face, she says having a child with a disabi l ity has brought them closer. They recently moved to Quakertown, Pa., where Thomas Adil is a United Church of Christ minister and a soon-to-be-certified art therapist who uses art to diagnose and treat psychiatric unit patients. Adil says she and her husband have discovered resources they didn't know they had in facing their child's d isabil ity. "I'm certainly not the person I would've been," she said. "I like to think I'm a better person. You grow up fast." in New England after two years in the remote U.P. of Michigan. . . . Mariellen Baxter had a down summer '94 in Rocky Hill, Conn., laid up with a herniated lumbar disk. She's better without sur gery, is back to all her usual ac tivities and is looking forward to retirement-some day-in M a i n e . . . . Lou ise and S c ot t Hobden are in Litchfield, N . H . , where Scott is t h e general man ager of the Manchester Country Club. After 20 year in the pri vate club industry, Scott has de cided that club management is probably what he will do when he grow up. He served a term as president of the New England Cl ub Managers Assoc i a t ion. Louise is full-time mom and part time bartender. Their girls, 1 3 and 1 5 , are athletes, singers and good students. Scott is looking at life differently after a life-threat ening illness la t year-trying to be le s obse sive aboutwork. Glad to s a y h e ' s fu l l y recove red now . . . . You can e-mail me at RAUR@Delphi.com. Greetings to all. +
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Nan Weidman Anderson
Late s u m m e r m ust have been a busy time for our classmates as only two found time to report. Curtis Johnson writes from Sing Sing Correctional Facility (on the right side of the bars) that he is dental director for the New York State Department ofCorrections. He also holds h is certification as a hostage negotiator for the state system. In Curt's spare time, he has garnered a commercial in strument pilot's license and has logged hours on the k i slopes and racquetball court. Jackie, Curt's wife, is also a dentist . . . . Linda and Peter Luckey have moved their fam ily, Christopher, 9, and Dan iel, 7, to Lawrence, Kan. Af ter nine very ati fying years as pastor of the Pilgrim Congrega tional Church in Oak Park, 1 11., Peter decided to accept a cal l to become senior pastor of the Ply mouth Congregational Church in Lawrence. Plymouth Congre gational has a large congregation who e roots date back to the
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Noel Barry Stella
Greetings from Eliza beth ( Barrett '80 ) and Martin Hubbe, who reside in I ndianapolis with their two children, A llen and Gerilyn. Martin is a chemist at Interna tional Paper. . . . Enid Gardner Eilis's daughters are young ladies now, freeing her up for three part time jobs. She and Bill recently bui lt their dream home in the northeast kingdom of Vermont, in which they spend winter and summer vacations . . . . We also heard from Sim-Kuen (Chan ' 7 5 ) and Robert Gregory. Sim has home-schooled their children,
one of whom is presently attend ing Wheaton College. Peter Lee Man, S. Mei -Shen and David are still at home with Robert and Sim . . . . Carrie Getty now lives in Idaho with her husband, Gregg Smith. Carrie moved from New York City in 1 994 and is cur rently engaged as a campaign co ordinator for a $ 3 . 5 -million drive to restore a beautiful old theater. They love their location-near Jackson Hole, Sun Valley and Yellowstone Park. Carrie said that she hardly misses N .Y.C., where she was burglarized, had her purse snatched and car broken into, and was even shot at i n the sub way. The only thing she misses is Chinese rake-out.Canieand Gregg are both national beer j udges, j udging at home brew and some commercial beer competitions around the country. . . . Richard and J anet Breslin Gilmartin "finally" moved back to the U.S. after 1 3 years l iv ing abroad in Switzerland, England, France and Hong Kong. Last w inter their sons-Jason, 7, and Kenton, 5saw their first snow and already have learned to ski. Janet ha been occupied with acting as a general contractor and interior de igner on her home, a tum-of the-century house in Southport, Conn. She is psyched for our re union next J une, having been out of the country for the last several reu nions . . . . We also heard from Olen Kalkus recently. He and his wife, Kim, are princi pal and teacher, respectively, of the I n te r n a t i o n a l S chool of Prague i n the Czech Republic. The Kalkus family, which in cludes sons J an and Evan, arrived in Prague in 1 994 to help build a school that has grown to over 400 students, pre-K through 1 2 . Olen's decision t o leave the pri vate school l ife in the States and move to Prague was based some what on the fact that his parents escaped from there in 1 948. He said, "It is a challenge to run a chool, with no gym, no cafete ria, no lounge or playing fields and a tiny library, but our back yard is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. I t is a wonderful opport u n i ty for me and my fam i ly." . . . Nancy Bengis Fried man would love to be in touch w i th Mary Mabon Colonna. Mary, are you there? N ancy and
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her husband, Robert, own a n en vironmental l ighting design and consulting company with the lyri cal name of Lampyridae ( Latin for l ightning bug ) . N ancy shares with us the news that she has developed MS but considers her self in reasonable shape. A poet, Nancy continues to write and to interview Colby applicants from Brooklyn. Our thoughts are with you, Nancy . . . . Jack Hoopes and h i s w ife , J oc e l y n , res ide i n Fairfield, Ohio, with John, 7 , and Emily, 4. Jack directs the public relations program at a closed ura nium production plant, which was formerly part of the nation's nu c lear weapons prod u c t i o n complex . . . . There are n o t too many months until our reunion. Dig out the 1 976 yearbooks so you can show off your memory for names and associations ! +
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Robert Kinney
I had this odd flash back to my senior year i n high school a few weeks ago when I received sev eral pieces of mail from various colleges-Bates, Harvard and Skidmore. These were not, after all, extremely late-arriving rejec tion letters but greetings from classmates. Steve Singer is direc tor of communications and ad j unct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Har vard. Steve and wife Kimberly recently welcomed the arrival of thei r second child, Matthew, to j oin big brother N icholas, 3. l n add ition, Steve notes that h e h a s d o n e some advance work for President Clinton . . . . John Smedley, associate professor of physics at arch rival Bates, re cently returned from a one-year sabbatical in Boulder, Colo. , where he worked on laser experi ments i n atomic col l i ions and atom trapping. John and wife Carole have two children, lan, 5 , a n d A n n a , 3 , a n d J ohn t i l l dabbles i n jazz guitar and compo s ition . . . . Greg Pfitzer, tenured professor of American studies at Skidmore, is working on a econd book about "popular histories" from the 19th century. Greg's first book was a well-received biogra phy of naval historian Samuel
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retired from tanker p i loting, is proprietor of the Inn at Chester ( Conn.) and notes that she and husband Roy enjoy "cru ising" on a 3 2 -foot skater that goes 1 1 0 mph in water! . . . M uch more i n the next column. Thanks for + writing!
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Deborah A. Greene 62 Locust A venue #2 Worcester, MA 0 1 604
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Beth Pniewski Wilson P.O. Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 4 5 I 508-456-880 1 e-mail: beth_wilson@mcimail.com 1 982
M imi Rasmussen 63 Reservoir Street Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-492 - 1 002 1 983
Sally Lovegren Merchant HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244- 3678 1 984
Maura Cassidy 1 8 1 Winthrop Road #9 Brookline, MA 02 1 46-4442 6 1 7- 566-00 1 2 e-mail: maura.cassidy@fmr.com 1 985
Barbara Knox Autran 1 74 Degraw Street Brooklyn, NY l I 23 1 -3008 1 986
Gretchen Bean Lurie 2606 San Marcos Drive Pasadena, CA 9 1 1 07 8 1 8-356-7538 1 987
Lucy Lennon Tucker 9 Wellstone Drive Portland, ME 04 1 03 207- 7 7 2- 7 1 27
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Peter Hedberg has j o ined the Norfolk Surgical Group in Vir ginia, where he and Lisa now reside. Peter's "primary interests are general surgery, laparoscopy, esophageal and hepatob il iary surgery. " . . . Ann Albee Hoefle confides that she and Ian '82 are settl ing down some now that they've dropped anchor in M id dlebury, Vt. (RD 1, Box 339A) and Colin, 4, and Kiera, 2, are getting a little older. Ann is an admin istrative officer for the Salzburg Seminar, overseeing its computer and in-house publish ing activities; Ian teaches in a drop-out prevention program. . . . Liz Yanagihara Horwitz has returned to the work force-and is spending her days with 2-year olds as an intern at the Wellesley College Child Study Center. Not surprisingly, her daughter, Alison, 7, has taken up the violin, and M ichael, 1 0, already has played with the Boston Youth Sym phony; both also include soccer in their repertory. Liz and hus band Barry live in Newton, Mass. ( 1 8 Durant S t . ) . . . . Susan Mackenzie describes some excit ing work-and play-that she and husband Michael Donihue '79 have been at during the last couple ofyears. They've had stops in Washington, D.C., where Sue
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wrote a book on ecosystem man agement scheduled to be pub lished next year by Island Press and M ike worked in the Clinton administration; in Cambridge, Mass., where Sue has a research appointment at Harvard's J FK SchoolofGovernment ; at Colby, where Mike continues as an eco nomics professor; as well as in France, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons-sites of similarly lofty vacationing. In the midst of all this, Colin has reached 9 and Ross, 6 . . . . Fred Madeira '80 is thrilled to report h is return to Maine (9 Hemlock Dr. , Cumber land Center) after 1 3 years of the nomadic life in Chicago, Boston and northern New Jersey. From h is base as eastern division ales manager for Wright Express in South Portland, Fred does a lot of traveling keeping up with the 1 5 sales reps he has covering the territory east of the Mississippi. On the recreational side, Fred and wife Trish were part of a Colby alumni sailing"team" glid ing a 42-foot catamaran through the Briti h Virgin Islands last April. Other crew members were Laurie and Geoff Emanuel '79, Matti and Chris Bradley '78 and Steve Hart '77 and friend, with an unexpected cameo appearance by seasoned Colby sailor Phil Kay '67, whom they met while "refu eling." Prudently, Fred already has a couple of future crew mem bers in training: John, 3 1 /2, and Nathan, I . . . . Tom Marlitt has moved to Los Angeles ( 1 1 6 1 Amherst Ave., #302 ) to take a new job as college counselor at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica. Tom adds that he en joyed the reunion very much. . . . Lydia Mason writes from her educationally oriented household in Farmington, Conn. (60 Main Sc. ) , that she is house director at M iss Parker's School and the mother of Emmett Mason Ing ram, 5 , and Noble Cooke Ingram,
l . Her husband, Mark Ingram, is teaching anthropology and French at UConn and West minster School, respectively, in addition to recently defending his dissertation on these subjects at NYU. On top of writing for the M iss Parker's School alumni magazine and editing the sum mer program newsletter, Lydia also is branching into desktop publishing . . . . Heidi Misslbeck write from Southhampton, N. Y. (Cow Neck Farm North Sea Rd. ), that sh e is a landscape architect, performing commercial site plan reviews for the Southhampton town planning board. At home, she describes a family unit that Dr. Doolittle would envy, includ ing Otter the Giant Schnauzer, Bear the Mame Shepard, Thor the Bullmastiff, Max the Wire hair Pointer, Erick the Koi dog, Jessie Poca and J immie the Paso Fina's and Belgian Morgan. More personally, Heidi reports that she has cleaned up her closet to ac commodate some elegant new suits . . . . I hear that Jay Moody is working hard ( as a geologi t ) a n d l i v i ng t h e good l i fe i n Falmouth, Maine (34 Johnson Rd. ) , with his wife Sue, a realtor, and their twin 5-year-old boys. Jay followed-up our 1 5 th reunion with a fishing trip with guide Andy Goode, bagging a 37-inch striped bass . . . . Thanks to ev eryone who's written. To those whose news hasn't appeared in the column yet, you'll make it into the next issue. I encourage those of you who haven't writ ten to drop me a line so that I can let everyone in on your life after Colby. + Correspondent: Beth Pniewski Wilson
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Deb Cook has been developing a consult ing firm for the past two
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Falmouth, Mai ne. D eb write, that
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company, and J an is the pre ident
cat ion for everyone e lse . . . . Sue
of I n fo � \'Stem' A rc h i t e c t s , a
most of her work i in the public
Perry is living in Upto n , Mass . ,
policy area with a concentration
making great trides a a writer. She ha.., ll'ritten a tuds Terkel
a n d is a large-animal radiology
on small busines and community
style hook on Vietnam, a collec
w ork i n g \\' 1 r h
technician.
that she
development. La t J une she at
tion of 1men·iews from both sides
comparnes in
spend much of her time with her
tended the W h ite House Confer
of the domestic cnnf1 ict, includ
twn ch ildren,
horses, Magic and
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ard . They han'. heen husy hu 1 kl -
45 years old ! ) . She spent t\\'O
W a hington a one o f 2 1 Maine
hopes to ha\'e it published. Joe
111g a garage o n rheir hou'L' and
\\'eeks on Deer Isle in Maine last
see- a lot of Henry Kennedy
land cap mg the yard but hm-e ab\1
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delegates. And on Great Dia
·ummer and tonk Maoic on the
mond Island in Maine, Deb mar
Bob Bower
carriage ride in Acadia Nat ional
ried Tony Holt, an attorney in
Park. Sue keep in touch with Sue
Ronni-Jo Po ner Carpenter '7 , ll'ho all li"e nearby. J oel wants to
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and John '80 and
private prac t ice in Pordand, and
Slawson
and N a n c y
now has t h r e e s t ep c h i l d re n ,
end an A P B on Shawn Morris
Welsh Isbel l . . . . David Bolger i s
Christopher, 1 6 , Gabrielle,
, and
sey, who was la t seen on the oil
lh·ing in Seattle, Wash . , with h is
J onathan, 6. Colby alumni at
fields of Texas . . . . Mimi Pratt
\\'ife, J u lie Ro enblatt. David b i
tending the wedding were Ellen
Valyo is liv ing in Laguna N igel,
cycl ed across Australia and Indo
Freedman, Ellen Huebsch Ander-
Calif. , with her husband, J ohn,
nesia by himself in
and he
and their t\\'O children, All ison
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and Ronni-Jo Posner Carpenter
and Chri tian. M imi says they
bey I ·land in Puge t Sound in
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and h i · wife, Sue Conant Cook
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eattle pursuing a master's
into the i r "h igh
in an exranded mar
ket of ind i,·idual insurance and in 11·e tern Maine.
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in educat ion . . . . Peggy Chamb
i n Mt. Kisco, N .Y . , and is the
lin is liv ing in Boulder, Co lo. , and
uea urer o f Banque Paribas in
joy
,·isiting friend- and fam i l y in
for 1 2 yea r · as manager and regi>
New York. He and h i wife, Mel
is an instructor and an admissioncounselor for Colorado Outward
Connecticut each summer, in
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c luding J odi Johnson Groesbeck and B r i a n P i c a r d . . J os e Sorrentino i a general surgeon in
Jon says that the whole family has been studying karate the past two
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his ll'ife, Laura, have two son , Sergio and Jo e . . . . Wayne and
i · ter
Jan J ohnson Gombotz are l i\'ing
Robin Meisner Lindquist is a
J une and plan to take vacation
Phoebe, 6. J oel is se ll ing munic i p a l bonds for Fleet Bank a n d has
in Kirkland, Wash. Wayne i the director of deli,·ery and formu
law l ibrarian, and her husband , Eri c , i an attorney. Their fir r
around it. J on write
been working on a three-year
lat ion
l m m u ne x Corp . , a
child , Anna Rachel was burn last
e a t t l e - b ;:i s e d b i o t e c h n o l ogy
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forward to our 1 5 th reunion in that the
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last
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for
Delaney, born in J uly 1 994.
Driven to Succeed hen m o s t people think
each day, making the I mpact' 7 0 - t o 90- m i le range adequate. "Yet
about electric cars , ays
when you ask people about electric l'ehicles, they feel constrained by the lim ited range," he sa id. " I n reality, they don't need i t . "
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imagine p u t t i ng around on
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slender paths on their way to the next tee. B u t when they
driv ing public su pic ious of an "extra agenda" will not feature
test drive the I mpact , General
Instead , M c N amara developed the I mpac t Pre,·iew Drive Pro gram , which will give 900 driver from 1 1 c itie· a chance to drive
testimonial from env ironmental i ts or u t i l ities representative .
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the electric veh icle for a long as two weeks. McNamara hopes the preview drivers will be ambassadors for the new technology. "We
car, "We tell them to get ready
for a helluva golf cart ride. People are t unned when the
have to reach the early adopter customer in order to reach the
car p i ns them in their seat."
mainstream c ustomer," he
emit
aid. "The early adopter i
someone
who's not intim idated by new technology-someone who has a
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no p o l l u t a n ts , reaches
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concerned but not a zealot." Cal l i ng his work a "hobby," McNamara ay h i upbringing and interest are well- u ited for marketing the I mpact. Gr01 ing up in We t Lebanon, N . H . , he wa
surrounded by automobile -his
fam ily owned a dealership. I n h is sophomore year at Colby, he took a J an Plan psychology cour e with Profes or Diane Winn, d uring which h e re earched cogni t ive psychology in a u tomotive adverti ing. "After the course, I took the concepts back home to the family dealership," said McNamara. "We tried them out in the advertis ing to see what worked and what d idn't."
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time for an educational grant on Mr. Desert Island, Maine, where they are currently living. They spent a great year in London while Eric was getting his advanced law degree at the London School of Economics and are now enjoying the peace and tranqu i l i t y of Mount Desert. . . Brian J . M c G rath and h i s wi fe, J ean Blaney McGrath, have built a new home in East Troy, Wi ., a mall southeastern W isconsin town surrounded by farmland. Brian, a telecommunication sales engineer, ha witched from the user to the vendor side of com munications and says that the work has been more challenging and exci ting than his previous jobs. Jean is a homemaker and home-schools their two chi ldren, Megan, 6, and Sean, 3. She al o leads Megan's Brownie troop, while Brian coaches Megan's soc cer team . . . . David Marcus is an assistant United tates attor ney in Los Angeles . . . . Cindi Moor Young is an attorney with Chevron N .S.A. I nc . She and her husband, E. Kevin Young, an attorney with the San Francisco c ity attorney's office, are living in Walnut Creek, Calif. Cindi says hello to New England and won der if anyone has heard from Karen Shaps . . . . Eric Ridgway
and hi w ife , Pa t t i , l i v e i n Sandpoint, Idaho, a m a l l com munity with many recreational opportunitie surrounding them. They love to garden, and Eric l isted nine different fruit trees and bushes plus a variety of annu als that they tend to. Eric and Patti own their private practice as licensed profes ional counse lor and have been so bu y that they've needed to hire additional counselors. They also are active i n their community, with Eric being on the boards of everal committee . This past summer Eric, who is still swimming as a master and competes in t r i athlon , organized t h e 1 st A n nual L a k e P e n d Ore i l le Long Bridge Swim, an open-water two m i le event. . . . Ginny McCourt McCurdy ha been busy organiz ing peaker for a parenting cen ter in the Newburgh area of New York, where she live with her fa m ily, and also has been active on the board of the nursery chool her children attended. Ginny told
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me he enjoyed telling people the age of her kids: 2 ( Annie ) , 4 ( Ryan ) , 6 ( Robbie ) , 8 ( Katie) it ounds like a cheer! Her hus band, Bob '8 1 , is VP of sales and marketing for GT! Graphic Tech. When Bob isn't traveling for GT! , h e is painting the outside o f their hou e, which got a new roof and porch this past summer. . . . Wes Martin has tarted a new law firm, Martin & Rome, in Nor walk , Conn. , where he is an attor ney. His wife, Martha ( Merrifield '85 ) is a h igh school Engl ish teacher. They have a 3-year-old son, Luca . . . . Seth Medalie was appointed general agent with The G uardian in 1 99 3 . H i s wife, Leslie, i in public relations, and they live in Needham, Mass., with their c h ildren, Ryan, 5, and Caitlin, 2 . . . . Patricia Philbrook Levine and her hu band, Tom, are the proud parents of a daugh ter, Katie, born in April 1 99 5 . Patric ia is a technical writer and Tom is a chemical engineer. They are living in Lee, N.H . . . . Beth Ross is a director for Redwood City 2000 and currently is fa cili tating a strategic planning pro c ess a i med at impro v ing the coordination of health and hu man service delivery systems in Redwood City, Calif. She has had a pivotal role in establishing two school -based fam i l y resourc e centers a n d developing related program to as ist local commu nities rai e healthy ch ildren. Her husband, Brian McMahon, is an entrepreneur, and they are home steading a piece of rural coastal property located j ust outside the village filmed in Outbreak. They have one pup, Bohdi. Visitors are + always welcome ! Correspondent:
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Everyone must be busy these days, so plea e take a few to let me report to our class your antics! I know a a mid- 30ish mother and woman of the '90s that there are a lot of fir t for us every day to hare with other '83ers. There's comfort in knowing other class mate are going through some of the ame experience daily, o send me your news ! And thanks to those who wrote in response to
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my que tionnaire . . . . Scott and Ashley Lasbury Dow have en joyed parenthood with daughters Samantha and Eleanor. Scott works as a district agent for North western Mutual Life in Portland, Ma ine, and Ashley has been ac tive with LaLeche League . . . . Greg and Maria Jobin-Leeds live in Cambridge, Mass., with 1 -year old daughter Casey. Maria's still working in A I D education as a training manager, and Greg is a political activist. They're learn ing how to enjoy their activities "at a different pace." . . . Also in Mas achusetts, in wamp cott, are Lisa and George Katz. George is associate d istrict manager of Employee Benefit Sale , and Lisa is a producer. Their daughter, G i l l ian, i al most 2 . . . . Dan Matlack sent his new noting a new address in Needham, Mas . Dan ha taken the po ition of teacher/coac h at Noble and Greenough School, and he and wife Alli on and daughter Han nah, 2, are eagerly awaiting a new baby as you read thi . . . . I en joyed running into Otto and Jean Christie Mejia last ummer in Bar Harbor as they vacationed from home in Arlington, Mass., where Jean i an assi tant direc tor of occupancy for screening and Otto works as an HVAC technic ian. Jean recently began a master's program at Suffolk University in human re ource development . . . . Scott ' 4 and Jane MacKenzie Morrill's chil dren are Kenny, 1 0, J ohn, 7 , and David, 4. J ane has maintained herCanadian citizenship, and the family lives in Tualatin, Ore . . . . Greg Marco is a science teacher, chair of the science department, dorm parent, golf coach and ka rate instructor at Westminster School in Sim bury, Conn. He and wife Cathy, a speech patholo gist, and children Sarah, 5, and Andrew, 3, note that boarding chool life i hec tic but very en joyable. Greg enjoy making a difference in the lives of young people . . . . Finally, my la t two newsletters came from Delisa Laterza in Charlotte, N .C., and Susie Macrae and her husband, Eric Broadbent '84, in Woodside, Calif. Delisa noted that 1 99 5 was stressful and full of changes. She took a job a account manager with Maritz, Inc. She and hu -
band W i l l iam R i tzel, who is president of American Fam ily Benefits, Inc . , hare their busy hou eh.old in Charlotte with their son Austin, 2, and Delisa's tep son, Marshall, 1 7 . They hope to sell their house in the spring needing more room ! Eric and Susie and boys Charlie, Jackson and cott j ust left Boston to live in Woodside, where Eric works for Apple Computer . . . . Thanks for new addresses, everybody. Good luck to everyone! I'll be anx ious to hear from others soon.+ Correspondent:
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Ken and Nancy Sil verman Levinsky live in Portland, Maine. She finds t ime to coach high school tennis, announce at col lege basketball games and be a full-time mom to daughter An drea, 2 . . . . David Rosenberg live in Marblehead, Mass., with wife Karen and two daughters, helby, 3, and Amanda, 1 . He i an a uto dealer. . . . Another Marblehead res ident is Karin McCarthy, who j ust bought her first hou e, a little cottage by the sea. She recently received her M . B . A . from Boston College. Karin is back in the public sector as deputy director of Massjobs Counc il after a stint in con ult i ng . . . . J ay '8 1 and Maureen Hagerty Polimeno recently pur chased the Alpine Club and Pub in N. Woodstock, N. H. They also run the rental company for the Alpine Village Resort near Loon Mountain Ski Resort. Their two l ittle girls, Katy, 6, and Aimee, 3 , love t o have the run o f the place. Please contact Mo if you're look ing for a vacation pot! . . . Lisa Patten is alive and well and liv ing in L.A. ! Having graduated from UCLA Film School, she has igned as a screenwriter with an agent. he wrote her first novel, which she hopes to find a pub lisher for soon, and recently had a short play produced in Holly wood . . . . Peter Necheles has been living in Washington, D.C., since December '92 when he left work at a N .Y.C. law firm and joined the Clinton/Gore presi d e n t i a l trans i t ion t e a m . He worked for two years on ec onomic
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Congregational Church i n Haverhill, Ma s . . . . Kathryn Soderberg '84 accompanied Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci on a trade m ission to Arge n t i n a , Brazil and C h i l e sponsored by the commonwealth's Office of I nternational Trade . . . . P h i l i p DeSimone '85 j oined Spaulding & S l y e real estate company in l?oston, Mas ., as vice president in the property/asset management group . . . . Mark Burke '86 ha been named interim athletic director at Sewickley Academy in Sewickley, Pa . . . . Douglas Scalise '86 is pastor of the Brewster Bapti t Church in Brewster, Mass . . . . Guilford College in Greensboro, N .C., appointed Steven S . Shapiro '86 a istant professor of phy ics and Karen J o Giammusso Shapiro ' 8 6 counselor for the college' Center for Personal Growth . . . . Peter Taubkin '86 was named vice presi dent of government relations and public affairs for Time Warner Cable in Albany, N .Y. . . . Ceramic by Melissa Hruby Bach '87 were exhibited at the Fog I lands Gallery on North Haven I land, Maine . . . . Tim Bonang '87 was featured in the Pon/and Press Heral.d for his business, Total Experience Sport , which " pecialize taking people to the ball game in tyle." . . . Nicholas Papapetros '87 i a new parmer with Thomas Swi.ft in family denti try in Andover, Mass . . . . Stephen Sanborn '87 is now a eventh grade teacher at Marblehead Community Charter School in Massachusetts . . . . Edith Bernhard van Breems '87 exhibited her photographs in a how, "Chateaux of France," at Barnes and Noble in New York City . . . . Greg Gatlin '89 was named busine s reporter for the Middlesex Community New papers in Massachusetts . . . . Tanya Goff Richmond development is ues for Rural America, including many areas in Maine. Currently he is with the Treasury Department work ingon financial policy, including p r i v a t i z a t i o n of government functions. In September '94 he married Marlis a Shea Briggett. . . Don and S a r ah R o g e r s McMillan a r e b o t h teaching, French and English re pectively, at St. Mark's School in South borough, Mass. They have two boy , Noah, 3, and Cameron, 1 . . . . Sarah Lund Peck and hus band David are l iv ing at M t . Home A i r Force Ba e in Idaho. Sarah wa working as a travel agent prior to marrying into the military three years ago . . . . J ane (McKenzie '83 ) and Scott Morrill are l iving in Oregon with their
three kids, Kenny, 9 , J ohn, 6 , and David, 3. Scott is an attorney. The Morrill recently went to British Columbia for a family re union, where Scott gave a speech in French that probably would not make hi ex-professors proud, but everyone there laughed . . . . Tom McDermott is attending N ortheastern Un iversity Law School in Boston, Mass. Last sum mer he worked for a federal d is t r i c t court j udge i n Bangor, Maine. Prior to law school, Tom spent three and a half years in the Army as an infantry officer at Ft. Benning, Ga . . . . H elen Kacoy anis Balzano and husband Silv io are both dentist and hare a prac t ice in Dover, N . H . They have rwo boys, Joseph, 3 , and George, 2 . . . . J ohn '83 and D i a n n e
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Marriages: Lawrence Anderson III '8 1 to Kathryn Mack in Cheshire, Conn. . . . Douglas Cawley '81 to Lauri.an Rhode in Troudale, Ore. . . . Cheryl M. Carr '81 to Norri L. Holt in We r Barnet, Vt. . . . Wende Davis '82 to Joseph Shultz in Beverly, Mas . . . . Mary Godbout '83 to Charles Thomp on in tandi h, Maine . . . . Scott 1. Benson '84 to Elizabeth Leuthner in New London, Conn . . . . Marie Joyce '84 to Daniel W . Fletcher l I I in Lake Worth, Fla . . . . Diane Perlowski '84 to Craig Alie '84 in Kennebunkport, Maine. . . . Michael Swift '84 to Deborah Petersen in Hartford, Conn . . . . Molly T. Couch '86 to Sean T. Ward in Ea thampton, Mass . . . . N. Scott Bates '87 to Karen Croff '88 in Coruit, Mass . . . . Jennifer Carroll '87 to Daniel Schildge in Groton, Conn . . . . Hannah L. Howland '87 to Bruce W. Judson Jr. in Brunswick, Maine. . . . Sarah E. Redfield '87 to Gregory M. DelVecchio in Marblehead, Mas . . . . Cheryl Renaud '87 to Anthony Dowd in Old Saybrook, Conn. . . . Katherine Webster '87 to Peter Kocks in San Francisco, Calif. . . . Richard Angeli '88 to Patricia Haxton in Warwick, R . l . . . . . David K. Brooks '88 to Kathleen Gilmore i.n Chatham, Mass. . . . Eric L. Swan '88 to Sheri Burger in Shoreham, N.Y . . . . Catherine Andrew to Roland Rogers i n New York, N .Y . . . Randy Barr '89 to Suzanne Ell is in Kennebunkport, Maine . . . . JenniferCooke '89 to Richard Rotman in Danvers, Mass . . . . Katherine Keller '89 to Michael Garfield J r. in Holderness, N . H . Births: A son, John Paxton Marshall, t o Carol S ly ' 8 0 and Stephen Marshall . . . . A on, Frazier J ack Sheehan, to George and Judy Sheehan Metcalf ' 8 1 . . . . A daughter, Lauren Marie, to Todd and Denise Brunelle Preiss '84 . . . . A daughter, Grace Connors, to Colleen and James Polk '85 . . . . A on, Cameron Lockwood, to Paul '86 and Melissa Rustia Grosheck '86 . . . . A daughter, J anet, to Jane and Bill Maher '87 . . . . A son, Brian David, to Mark '87 and Linda Roberts Pagnano '87 . . . . A on, Liam Thomas, to Heidi Irving-Naughton '88 and Kevin Naughton . . . . A son, Samuel Caleb, to Jeff and Mary Federle Porter '88 . . . . A son, Gabriel Jonathan, to Scott '88 arid Kristen Foss Smith '88 . . . . A on, Andrew Jacob, to Ellen '88 and Steven Teplitz '88. Grundstrom Lemoine are living
in Saco, Maine, where Diane is a physical therapist and John is an attorney. They have one son, Andrew, 2, and another on the way . . . . C a t h e r i n e and B i l l Rogers are taking a leave o f ab sence from their j obs-both of t h e m a t torneys in B o u l d e r , Colo.-to travel around the world for a year. First top: Papua, New G uinea. They will see how ap pealing the practice oflaw is upon their return . . . . V ito and Bar bara Duncan Marchetti are liv ing in Plaistow, N . H . , and both own their own businesses. Bar bara's is a consulting firm. he al o i on the public peaking c ircuit, which takes her all over the country. She loves having her own company and the im-
p roved q u a l i ty of l ife it has provided . . . . Paige Lilly write from Blue Hill, M aine, that she and husband Bob Stephens have been married 10 years and had their first child, Lorna, in J une '95 . Paige is a librarian/archiv ist at the Penobscot Marine M u e um . . . . Andy Lufkin :s a v ice president in investment banking in San Franci co, Calif. . . . Mar ian Leerburger-Mahl and hu band D a v i d have completed t h e i r three-year tour working in the outback of Australia and are back in the U . S . in Maryland. Marian is completing her Ph. D . , working at the Department of Defense, teaching part time and taking care of son Alexander, 1 . . . . Thanks to all who wrote recently with new . I have too much to
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l had so much new to write about last rime rhat I really d idn't have a chance to introduce my elf as your new class secretary- o here goes: I 've decided to put off going back tD work as my on, Dylan, keeps me very bu y, and it's won derful to have o much r i me with him. My day are filled with swim m i ng le·son , music class and walks i n the park . His favorite word is "no," which l hear is typi cal of most kids around the age of 2 . . . . Cathy Urstadt Biddle is al o a proud parent. Her daugh ter, E l i nor Phoebe B iddle, was born November 2 4 , 1 99 3 . Paul Doyle w a elected t o the Connec ticut House of Represen tatives in 1 994 . . . . Lori Gus tafson Adams writes, " Having an infant, a preschooler, and a fu ll-t ime job i quite a challenge 1 ( Bur lots of fun, too ! )" Her daugh ter, J enn ifer J ean, was horn in A p r i l 1 994 . . . . Kelli C r u m p moved to Wellesley, Mass., in August of '94 . . . . John '86 and Imogen Mintzer Church pur chased a house to make room for Connor A ug u s t u s , born last March 20. They moved into their home in eptember of 1 994 . . . . Rebecca Bullen rerurned to the States from Paris in 1 993. After ubstitute reaching in Claremont, N . H. , for more than a year, mostly at the middle chool, she writes, "Unhappy thing are going on in the public chools up here-tru ancy, k ids j ust float ing from class to clas with no fear of being held back. It makes me wonder when it' going to get better. It really seems l ike it can't get any worse." ( We seem to have followed the same path. l experienced a simi lar frustration in the New Hamp h i re public chool system after my return from Paris. ) Rebecca is l iving next door to the Goddard Mansion, which is run by her mom, Debbie Wilson Albee '60. Rebecca wa planning to move to ourhem New H ampsh i re last ummer. . . . Linda Carroll got
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Becau e of the great re ponse from rhe la r two que t i o n n a i res sent out by the Alumni Office, l am finally catching up in report ing clas news. For those of you thinking of wri ting in for the col umn, please do, and for those of you who have already replied, thank you, and l promise to get to everyone . . . . I t seems that the baby boom has h it rhe Class of 1 986 ( lots of new li ttle people to welcome to the growing list of Colby legacies ! ) . Tim and Car oline Nelson Kris have been busy with the publicat ion of the New England Prep chool port Page, a business they started 3 1 /2 year ago. Their summer was high l ighted by the birth of daughter Casey, who joined big brother Cory, 4 . . . . J im and Lila Hopson Monahan celebrated the fi rst b i r t h d a y of t h e i r d a u g h t e r , Cassandra, last fall. Thi· sum mer Lila will finish her first year of a fellowship in pediatric criti cal care at Denver Chi ldren's Hosp i t a l . . . . Bob and B e t h S c h w a r t z K e n n e y welcomed Lauren Elizabeth last May. While Bob has started a succe sful new management and ream consult ing firm, they say the arrival of the ir daughter was many time more exciting . . . . Linda ( Fl ight '85 ) and Peter Lull are proud to announce the arrival of W i l l iam, born la t J une. While at a Red Sox game with Harry '85 and Trish Martin Raphael and Jeff D ' Agostine, the group saw the long-lost Bill Yardley. . . . Maria and Michael Marra are living in Barrington, R . l . , where Michael is i n h is 1 0th year of teaching
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( and �till thinking it' the hesr job around ! ) . Their son Matthew is 1 5 month old . . . . Brenda and Stephen Poirier have two chil dren, Meghan and Kiernan, 2 and 1 . tephen is director of cl ient service for a systems consulting company in Portland . . . . Mich ele and Philip Lapp moved back home to Vermont, where they bought an old farmhouse. When not prac tic ing med icine ( endo crinology ) or sighting deer, wild turkeys and bear prints on their property, Phil and h i · wife are enjoying parenthood with Kath erine Grace, l . . . . Loh ini and Chapman Mayo write from their home in St. Paul. where they are al o experiencing the joy of par enthood-Hugh Armstrong ar r i ved last May. Chapman is finishing up his M . B.A. at the U n i v e r · i t y of M i n nesota. Brian and Robin Venditti Stoll have their hands full since the arrival of rwin girls, Mary and Meghan, last March. They are find ing life ab olutely crazy but fu ll of joy . . . . Gary and Heather Freeman Blac k's k ids are four legged and furry. Zeke , a cat, and Spritzer, a black lab, help keep the home fires buring in Ver mont, where Heather is a pho tographer and her husband is owner and publi her of Ski Racing lmemational. They had an incred ible experience last summer com ing fa ce to fa ce with a brown bear during a boat trip from Ala ka to Seattle . . . . Tom '87 and Pam Christman Sawyer moved from Maine to Oregon in late 1 99 3 , found new jobs and bought a new home in time for the arrival of Cole J ordan in J anuary 1 994. They report that they are all out of changes in their lives for the next decade 1 • • • After working in the Northeast with Oti Eleva tor for even year , Daniel Bullis got his M.B.A. at RPI and relo cated to Mi souri with his wife, Dorothy, and 2 -year-old son, Andrew. Dan is c ur r e n t l y a branch manager with U.S. Eleva tor. . Suzanne Swain Masiello "retired" from her job at an in vestment banking firm last sum mer o he could relax and prepare for the arrival of her little bundle at Christmas time. (We hope to hear all the fun details for our next column . ) . . . lmogen ( M int zer '8 5 ) and Jay Church al o are
expecting-their new addi tion will be arriving in the spring. I n preparation, they sold their town house and bought a three-bed room home in Sunnyvale, Calif. Jay is now working for K i rk Paper. . . . Bill Nicholas report for the first time, he thinks, since graduation. After receiv i ng a master of arc h i tect ure degree from Harvard i n 1 99 2 , B i l l worked briefly in London before returning to Lo Angeles, where he opened h i s own pract i c e , Nicholas/Budd Design. In Bil l's last year at Harvard, Mark Gor don showed up for his first. Bill speaks period i c a l l y to Peter Voskamp, who is i n Aust in, Texas, trying to get h is band' second CD released. M ike Va quez '87 is al o in Au tin, run n i ng a s u c c essful record i n g studio . . . . I t w i l l b e great t o get everyone back up on the Hill in J une-mark your calendar for the 1 0th reunion, J une 7-9! Un til then, best wishes for contin ued happiness and success! + Correspondent:
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last t h ree ummer have been busy one . l n J une of '93 he married M ichael Fahey. In J une of '94 she com pleted her M . B.A. at Bentley, and in J uly she and Mike relo cated to At lanta. In J uly of '95 they were expecting their first child. M ike is a tax consultant for Price Waterhouse and Donna plans to stop work for a wh ile and stay home with the baby . . . . Marianne MacDonald Wessman
and husband John have moved from Hou ton, Texas, to Na h v i l le, Tenn. Marianne i bu y working for an in urance com pany supervising 1 5 -20 employ ee and spend her free time enjoying being an aunt to four n ieces and nephews. . . . Ellen MacDonald is still liv i ng in Bos ton working for NYNEX. She is at BU pursuing her ma ter's in social work, which she was to complete last December. Ellen recently became engaged and planned a wedding for January of '96 . . . . Sue Payne i living in Corona de! Mar, Calif. , but gets back East quite often as she is still
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las, 1, live i n Portsmouth, N . H . , a t the Portsmouth Abbey School, where Steve i a math teacher, hou ema ter and coach . Four years ago Dede was living and
working with aut istic children when Tom and Jen Shackett Berry introduced her to Steve. Dede plan to return to grad school when the kids are a little old et . Dede keeps in touch w ith Elseke Membreno Zenteno, who recently had a baby girl, Mari anna . . . . Robert and Elizabeth "Buffy" Connor Bullard are liv ing in Alfred, Maine. Buffy gave birth to Matthew Robert in J u ly 1 994 and has taken a year leave of absence from her teaching po s ition at Thornton Academy to stay at home with Matthew. She sums things up pretty wel l when she writes that it is a "joyous, wonderful, exhausting j ob ! " . . . G r e g C i o t t o n e w r o te from W i lbraham, Mass., to say that on November 5, 1 99 3 , he actually delivered h is daughter, Heather. Greg and wife Laura are both physician . Greg has joined the staffofUniversity of Mas . Med i cal Center i n the department of emergency medicine. He will also continue as a fl ight physician on the New England L ifeF l i g h t helicopter. . . . I mere ted in hear ing from any Colby grad in hi · area 1s Ned Case, who has been living for the past three years in Raleigh, N .C . , and working for GE Capital Mortgage as a project team leader. H is reggae band, Wa pafarians, i currently on sab batical, and he bought a hou e and is using his spare time to foe i t u p . . . . R e b e c c a B i n d e r and Charle Cohen moved to N . Y. C . , where they recently celebrated their first anniversary. +
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Matthew '87 and Be vin Dockray Gove have lived i n the Big Apple for the pa t four years. Bevin is a public relations spe c ial ist with Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc . ; Matt i vice presi dent at Landover Holdings Corp. Rebecca Bruce, S u zanne Mac lachlan, J ill Heslam and Meg Galloway Pierce all attended their December 1 994 wedding party. Other nuptial thi pa t summer: Toby and Vickie Caron Bell in Portland, M aine, and Kristin Sc holl to M ichael Perry on Squirrel Island off Boothbay
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H arbor, M a i n e . K r i s t i n and M ichael tied the knot a do:en years after being h igh school sweetheart . David Brooks got hitched last September to Kate G i lm ore in C h a t h a m , M as s . David recently w a s promoted to vice president of marketing at M i ramax, where he has been working since getting his master's from N YU in 1 990. He has been l iv ing in Brooklyn, N .Y . , and loves the neighborhood sense of community de pite the looming c ity. Karen Adler Walsh, an as sistant vice president at Pumum Investments in Bosron, got mar ried in the fall of 1 994 to Joseph Walsh . . . . Of course, after mar riage comes the addition. Steven and Ellen Krause Teplitz an nounced the birth of Andrew Jacob last October. J oshua and Stacy Mendelsohn Marx re turned from the Peace Corps la t spring and now have a girl named Sallie Aij len ( " the a is ilent, a Chilean indigenous word for hap pine s " ) . Stacy has taken time off to be a mom; J osh i still working in local government as a legi la t ive aide to an elected council member in eattle, Wash. M ich ael and Mary Shepard DiSandro had a daughter, El izabeth Lane, last April ro go along with Sarah, 3. She has been busy with the girl and working part time a the executivedirector for a small non profit group called The Haitian Proj ect. They live in Rhode Is land, where M ichael works for Fleet Bank in Providence . . . . Geoff and Deedra Beal Dapice have two daughters, Coralie, 4, and Shannon, 2. Geoff is a tech nical ale rep at Binax Inc. in Portland, M a ine, and Deedra works as a science teacher at M as s a b e ic H i gh School in Waterboro, Maine . . . . N ate and Mandy Howland Huber have been build ing a home in Fal mouth, Maine. Mandy has started classes in preparation for possibly attending veterinary school; Nate owns a cabinet shop and con structs furniture . . . . Aero s the ocean, J ennifer Gaylord Donat has enjoyed not being allowed to work in Switzerland and ha rel i hed all the perk of motherhood while traveling thi past year. . . . Whitney G ustin has enjoyed her five year of Colorado and her many Colbyite encounter
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Gene Hackman, Den zel Washington and '9 1 ' very own Dan Raymont! Look for hi performance a one of the ma rines. He also appeared in Ed, two plays and a commerical and has been doing voice-overs . . . . Deb Lloyd is enrolled at Thunder bird , the American Graduate School of 1 n ternational Manage ment, pursuing her M . B.A. She' still studying Chinese in hopes of j o ining Stu Eunson and Ron Thompson in Beij ing . . . . Jane Maloney is in her second year at the Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth and will graduate in J une '96 . . . . J ulie Moran is work ing towards her Ph.D. in toxicology at the Un iversity of Colorado Health Sc ience Center in Denver. . . Sally Hewitt spent her summer working for the Bos ton Pops and on Martha's Vine yard as a carpenter/painter/fence bu ilder and is now getting her ma ter's in communicat ions at Emerson College . . . . Audrey Witteman has a new-found in terest in pol itic through her job as manager of communications at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Semi nar . When he started, she found a p icture of President Cotter and former Colby students-she is defini tely home! . . . Katherine Roth i a Ph .D. candidate in ro mance languages and literature ( Frenc h ) at the Univers i ty of Michigan and is beginning her d issertation. Her fiance, Alex andre Dauge, is also a grad tu dent in the French program at UM. They will be married J uly 2 7 , 1 996 . . . . Lauren Knebel wa working in marketing communi cation and public relations in
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San Franci�co and saw Wendy Langdon and Laura Pizzarello. She is now pursuing a double master's in international relations and internat ional communica tion at Bo ton Un iver ity. She also said that Christina Tuccille i off traveling in Asia. Laura has settled in San Franci co, has her master' in graphic de ign and say , "ye , 1 am t i l l d a t ing Norwood Scott '89 ." he i now a freelance designer and having a blast! She sees Hilary Robbins and Bill Goodman quite a bit and saw Kristin Herbster-Dav i s . . . . Meredith Palin is an art ad min istrator and cl ient relation manager for the French I nstitute/ All iance Francaise in New York City and says that the activity of which he i proudest is attend ing the weddings of her friends: Kim N o rberg B u r k e , Stacy Porath B r u d e r and Twisty Gogolak to Tom Dorian. She also has at least two more, Ellyn Paine and Grace Liang to Andy Shpiz. racy Porath Bruder and her husband, Christopher, ju t moved to Newton Centre, where he is an account manager for Design Times magazine in Boston and he is a tenni pro. She says, "in the last three months I've moved to Newton, started a new job and got married-never a dull momen t ! " . . . Erik Potholm is a med ia consultant in D.C. . . . Iris Kelley is a development a s istant at Harvard, a part-time student and engaged to be married in April '96 to Ho J in Park, a me chanical engineer. Diane Osgood and Carol Rea Christie will be in the wedding party . . . . Frederic Ramstedt has done everything from painting hou e to ell ing wine and selling stock to teach ing English at a USM ummer exchange program with Rissho University. Now he is a regi tered ales a i rant at Paine Webber in Portland . . . . Becca
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First the e-mai l . Zach Shapiro i till in rab binical school in Cin c innati. He spent the summer in Israel and looks forward to spend ing next year as a student rabbi in G reat Falls, Mont . . . . No rm Stillman is at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medic ine spec ializi ng in small animal and planni ng a J une '96 wedd ing w i t h Diane Osgood '9 1 . . . . Brian Meehan is al o engaged-to Eraena Bracy, a nur e at Children's Hospital in Bo ton. He i working as a resi dential coun elor for mentally ill patients while pursing his master's in education. . . Jennifer Mc Leod has worked at UMaine Orono for the past two years and recently became the webmaster for the university' Web s i te. Jen nifer wrote that Craig Mertens and Kris McGrew plan a wed d ing for ummer '96, Margaret Russell plan a spring '96 wed d ing and Jon Thometz is pursu ing a master' in education after getting his master' in hi tory at Marquette University . . . . Mary Beth Heiskell i t i l l working at the National Marine Fi heries Service and will begin a ma ter's in marine biology through BU'
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NEWSMAKERS Suslowicz '93 is marketing as i rant at Spaulding & Slye real e rate company in Boston . . . . Christy Everett '94 and Anne McManus '95 hiked a l 20-mile portion of the Appalachain Trail in Maine and rai ed nearly 5 ,000for the New Beginnings Women' Crisis Center in Lacon ia, N.H . . . . Larry Rulison '94 is the new editor of the Baldwinsvi lle, N . Y., Messenger. . . . Melissa Wilcox '94 i working in a Rwandan refugee camp in northern Tanzania with Volunteer for Mi ion . . . . John Dunbar '95 i an imem in the cience and math departmenrs at Vermont Academy . . . . Chris tine Haigh '95 has been named assistant coach of the Rhode ls land College women's oftball team . . . . Rachel Sotir '95 i an agent for Hunneman & Co./Coldwell Banker in Newton Centre, Mas .
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c h o logist for the Penn Brook School in Georgetown, M a s . . . . N avy Lr. Reed J . Bernhard '90 i serving in the Adriatic Sea near Bo nia aboard the a ircraft carrier U . . S. America. . . . J on Gale '90 has been named assistant d istrict attorney for Aroostook County, M aine . . . . Deanna Mitchell '90 is teaching grade two in M aine' School A d m inistrative District Anne McManus '95 (left) 3 5 . . . . John Gause ' 9 1 j oined the and Christy Everett '94 . Berman & Simmons law firm in Bridgton, Maine . . . . Kimberly Swon Lewis ' 9 1 has been named to the staff of the Greene County Primary School in Greene County, Va . . . . Jake Silberfarb '9 1 was promoted to captain in the U .S. Marine Corps . . . . Kevin Whitmore '9 1 is assistant men's basketball coach at the University of M aine . . . . Con st.a nt in os Zioze ' 9 1 was a d m i tted to the N ew Hampshire Bar . . . . Amy Selinger '92 is assi tant coach of girls' basketball and l a c rosse at M o n tc l a i r K i m be r l y A c a d e my in N e w Jersey . . . . Zachary Shapiro '92 i s t udent rabbi for Congregation A itz Chaim in Great Falls, Mont. . . . Angela Ten nett Butler '93 was appointed commerc ial lender at Merril l Merchants Bank in Bangor, Maine . . . . J en nifer Larsen '93 teaches grade six lan guage arrs in New London, Conn. . . . Tyler Lewis '93 has j oined the math department at Blair Academy in N ew Jersey . . . . Kristen marine program at Woods Hole. . . . Now the Pony Express mail: Felicia Gefvert left teaching, spent a few weeks in Europe over the summer and is now working in management for Starbucks Coffee . . . . Jodi Ernest graduated from law school in San Diego in December '94 and is l iving in Greensboro, N.C., working in real estate while srudying for the N .C. bar exam . . . . Bil l Higgins i ide by-side with Derek Bettencourt at Sun Life of Canada out of Chi cago. They've had visits from Mark Flaherty, Brian Mulvey, Bill Foster and Chuck DiGrande '93 . . . . Laura Weymouth Horne
pent two year in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, where she met her husband ( as of Sep tember '94 ) . She i currently the director of Big Brothers/Big S is ter in Brunswick, M aine . . . . Jay Hermsen wrote from Savusavu in the Fij i I slands, where he has pent almost two years in the Peace Corps. He wa to return to the U .S. in December and was thinking about graduate school. . . . Heather Hamilton i in grad chool at Emerson, pur u ing a master of fine arts and planning for a J une '96 wedding in Chat-
MILEPOSTS M arriages : J ul i e Ambrose ' 90 to Benj amin G ray in Bath , Maine . . . . Christopher W. Jones '90 to] ennifer Fenton in Green wich, Conn . . . . Rebecca Bancroft '9 1 to David Mills ' 9 1 in South Orleans, Mass . . . . Frederic Harlow '9 1 to J il l Gardner '95 in Ellsworth, M aine . . . . Debra MacWalter '91 to Frederick Bright in Waterville, M aine . . . . Elizabeth Reutlinger '9 1 to J acob Falconer in Pemaquid, M aine . . . . Kimberly Swon '9 1 to Thoma Lewis in Kewick, Va . . . . Seth Wheeler '9 1 to Beatrice Lewis in N ew Durham, N .H . . . Jessica D'Ercole '92 to Michael Stanton '92 in Melvin V i l lage, N . H . . . . Heather Maureen Glynn '92 to Peter Ginolfi '92 in Greenwich, Conn . . . . Jennifer Griffin '92 to R ichard Harkin· in Scarborough, Maine . . . . Sarah Hamilton '92 to Scott Barringer in Cohasset, M as . . . . Karen Whitcomb '94 to David Bryan '94 in Meriden, Conn.
ham, Mass . . . . Kim Ereminas is braving her fourth winter in M in neapolis, working as the director of development for a nonprofit organ ization . . . . Chris Froth ingh a m , s t i l l l iving in N orth Andover, i applying to medical school. . . . Andrew Finn, after long hours and lot of hard work, is now one of the youngest pilots flying for American Eagle after training there since J anuary '94. He is currently checking out the major airlines, incl uding United, Delta, American and N orth west . . . . Grace Grindle i still teaching high chool Spanish with Teach for America in North Carol ina. This pasr summer she rai e d more than $6 ,000 for Hab itat for H umanity by rid ing her bicyc le from Seattle to Asbury Park, N .J . . . . Mike Gorra and Michelle Tupesis were mar ried in March '95 and are living in I thaca, N .Y. M ike is in h is th ird year at Cornell Veterinary School, and M ichelle i working toward her master's in education. Bob Gramling George Linge, Katie Drowne, Karen Santoro
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Katie finished her master's in English at UConn and last year worked at the Colby Writers' Center before moving to Chapel H il l , N .C., to begin a Ph. D . pro gram in English at UNC. Camper D a n Belvin called from Fort Bragg, where he serves in the 3rd Spec ial Forces Group; he was looking forward to a stint with the Airborne Division j umping out of airplanes and wa hoping fo r no more broken b o n e s . . . . Garin Arevian '9 1 a n d Kelly Evans were married in October in Chatham, Ma s. Chuck Leach '91 ( who is working at Bowdoin in communications ) , Scott A l len '90, Rachel Klein, Nicole Dau teuil Begin, Helen Suh and I were in the wedding party. Also i n attendance were Peter '89 and Laurie Meehan Reed '8 , Becky Graham ( who j u t produced her first feature fil m ) , Sandrine Dufils '89, J ack Higgins '93 , Grace Liang ' 9 1 , Andy Shpiz '9 1 , Eric Johnson { who is l iving in M ilwaukee and work i n g fo r S r rong M u t u a l Funds), Dave Edelstein ( back at Princeton after spending the sum mer in D.C. work ing for the Council of Economic Advi or ) , Mark Boles, Andrew Eldredge,
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nor '9 1 , Sean ' 9 1 and M egan Fitzpatrick Lucey '94, Deb Brown '9 1 , Steve Collier ' 9 1 , Steve Marshall '9 1 , Clark Weber '9 1 , Steve Swartz (j ust recen ti y trans ferred to Montreal w ith Morgan Stanley ) , Poppyann ( Mastrovita '9 3 ) and Mark Longsjo, Chris '90 and Clare DeAngel is Con nelly '90 and Billy Burke '9 1 . . . . I am now working as a marketing manager at Donna Karan for DKNY Hosiery, Eyewear, Acces sories, Shoes and Menswear in Manhattan and am finally enjoy ing my j ob. N ow all I have to do is move out! . . . Please keep the m a i l c o m i n g . My e - m a i l is + kmartsmb@aol.com Correspondent:
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Hello to everybody! Kristin Owens has re linqui hed her d uties as author of this column; I , Bill Miller, am now doing it. Thanks for the responses to the parti a l m a i l ing . . . . K a r y n R i m a s i working for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston.
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he is engaged to Jeffrey Pantry, whom she met at the wedding of Angela Tennett ancJ Paul But ler. The wedding is et for J anu ary 6, 1 996 . . . . Sheri Petelle is a pan ish teacher in Lawrence, Mass. She spends her time grad ing papers and see ing the rel igion teacher, with whom she was fixed up by some of the students. "Thing get a little tricky," she writes . . . . Laura Lepler is a sec ond grade Spanish teacher in Denver, Colo. , after she finished grad school and rece ived her teaching certification. he has a year-old black lab named McK in· ley. . . Kristin Ostrom is work· ing in the dermatology lab at the B.U. School of Medic ine. She is engaged to Andrew Al len and wil l be married J u ly 6, 1 996. he tarted nursing school this past summer. . . . Candace Killmer has moved from N . Y.C. to Cam bridge, Mass. he i working at Coopers & Lybrand in Boston and i l i v i ng w i t h C r i s t e n Herlihy, Michele Kennedy and Mary Fitzgerald . . . . David Rea
is a l i tigation legal assi tant in Ph i l adelphia, "enjoying life . " . . . Ellie North h a s moved to Allston, Mass., and is re earch ing infectious diseases at Bo ton Un ivers ity. She writes that Beth Cronin and Josh Bubar spent the summer in Aruba, teaching at the International School of Aruba. She also writes that An drea Walker is livi ng in Port· land, Maine, where she spends most weekends outdoors fi hing, biking and camping. . Sarah Burditt is l iv ing in L i ttle Rock, Ark., facing a "drastic adjustment in culture, weather, terrain and atti tudes" after moving from the Northeast. She writes that Sarah Inman stopped by on a road trip from R ho d e I s l and to N e w Orleans . . . . Shannon Roy is !iv· ing in San Francisco and working a a freelance photographer. She rides her mountain b ike and says she drink fa r too m u c h coffee. . . Jamie Perlman i liv· ing is Buenos A i re , Argentina, where he has a five-year record contract . . . . Dana McClintock is living in Hoboken, N .j . , where he is a publicist for CB . He is engaged to J enna Macunoch ie ( Bates '94-he apologize ) . . . . David McCarthy is a newlywed. He married J ayce McCarthy on
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Augu t 1 2 , 1 995 , in Connecti· cut, where T i m Merrigan was his be t man and Chris Baynes, Paul Froio, Shawn Jenkins and Will B e r g l u n d e r v e d as u s h e r . A m y Partridge-Barber is i n h e r final year a s a student in Bos ton College's master's of soc ial work program. Her husband, Ken Barber, i a life insurance under writer at UNUM in Portland. . . . Naomi Pietrucha is enjoying l iving in New Jersey and working in N .Y.C. as a spec ial project coordinator for Cancer Care, Inc. She had previou ly been in Wash ington, D.C. , with Holly Coxe. . . . Jorma Kurrywa married J uly 1 , 1 99 5 , to Karin K i l lmer '90 in Camden, Maine. He i currently a grad tudent in Russian lingu is· tics in Iowa. H is wife is a profe sor/c oach at I owa We leyan University . . . . Sue Krolicki is liv ing in Cambridge, Mass . , and working at a transportation plan n i ng and management fi rm. . . . Elizabeth Rogers is living in Portsmouth, N .H. She has joined a writing group and recommends everyone read Erne t Hebert's The Dogs of March . . . . Katherine Rogers Roberts is l iving in Dal las, Texas, with her husband, W i l l iam. The two have traveled throughout the U.S . . . . I hope to hear from you soonl + Corre pondent:
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Most of the news is from questionna i res mailed last summer. Jess Matzkin returned from a year of teaching in Ecuador and is pur u ing an M.A. in American s t u d i e at the U n i v e r ity of Wyoming . . . . Heather Johnson worked as a legal ca e manager in Charleston, S.C., but is now en rolled in a Ph.D. program in soc i · ology at Northeastern . . . . After working in Denver for a poli t ical consultant on a U.S. Senate cam· paign, Bonnie Johnson returned to work in a ummer camp for inner-city k ids in New Hamp· hire and planned to move to Bo ton i n September. E l l i ot Barry lived an hour away from her in Colorado but is now in terning with the Tyler W ildcat· ter , a baseball team in Texas. Bonnie also say that Melissa
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year to work with women refu gees and that Amy Clapp, back from her b i ke t o u r of New Zealand, now leads bike tours in Vermont. She a! o says that Devri Byrom is in an Francisco with Andy Ros i '93, Michelle Sat terlee and Janet Powers; J ess Cornwell works for a publishing company in Bo ton; Jon Mitchell works in Portland, Maine; Paul White enjoys his job in M inne apolis; and Jim Lindstrom, Kim Kessler, Adam Furber and Jason Sudano are all in N .Y.C. Thanks for all the news, Bonni e ! . . . Liz Moody works as a legal assistant at Debevoise & Plimpton in N . Y.C. and lives in Brooklyn. . . . Jessie Newman, who partici pated last May in the California A I DS R ide from San Francisco to LA. to benefit A I DS research, was still in Denver and planned to tudy physical therapy after completing all the prerequisit ies. She was looking forward to a v ist from Babs Coulon and Tracy Larsen and hoped to v isit Steve Warwick and Michelle Mathai in Seattle . . . . Marine! Mateo likes working for a real estate company that purcha es old aban doned apartment build ings in poor neighborhood in Chicago, renovates them and rents them out to low-income families. She enjoyed a v i s i t from E m i l y Chapman, w h o fin ished grad school and works for a publi bing c o m p a n y in Mas a c h u s e t t s . Marine! wrote that Jenn Wolff teaches in Bangor, Andrea Stairs moved to New Hampshire and teaches Engl ish at a m iddle school in Derry and Andy Carlson, at Colby soccer camp last summer for Coach Se rdj e n i a n , now teaches in southern Maine . . . . Ali Meyer, assistant director of admissions at Colby, is looking forward to recrui ting in western and southern states this year. . . . Ben Morse received a B.E. in mechanical engineering from Dart mout h, where Pres ident Clinton spoke at the graduation. Ben is now a manufacturing engi neer w i th Texas I n truments M o tor Control D i v i s i on i n Attleboro, Mass., and sees Jen Hurd, who works as a computer consultant with Quality Solution in toneham, Mass . . . . Heather Lounsbury works as a chemi t
for the Massachusetts Waste Water Recyc ling Program and lives in Somerv i lle with Rebekah Freeman, Carolyn Hart and Kim Morrison '90. . . J o s h Lutton's new job in technical sales sup port with Motorola Cellular In frastructure Group in l l l i nois has taken him to India several times. He writes that he is happy to be t i l l dat ing Laura Pav le n ko. . Laura M i lle r moved from D.C. to Nashvi lle, Tenn., to work for Lamar Alexander's presiden tia I campaign. She and J a c k Nestor are on the campaign trail together and hoping to work in the White House in '97. J ac k wrote that h i good p a l Mike Malony i s engaged . . . . Ka tie Morrison i in a four-year-pro gram at San Francisco Theologi cal Seminary, pursuing a master's of divinity and preparing as an open lesbian to become a pastor in the Presbyterian Church USA, which at this t ime will not ordain her. She is one of the authors of Called OUT: The Voices and Gifts of Lesbian , Gay , Bisexual, and Transgendered Presbyterians . . . . Carie Nelson "survived" her first
year at yracuse University Col lege of Law, worked at the U.S. attorney' office in Syracu e last summer and continues to work on the Journal of Legislation and Policy during the school year. . . . Congratulations to Junko Kito Saito, who married J uw Saito last J une ! She and her husband work in the foreign min istry of Japan, and she hopes to return to the U . . as a diplomat in the future.+ Correspondent:
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Burlington in Wash ington, D.C. He says that Gino delSesto is working towards his master's at GW, Brett Santoli is at Corn e l l Law School and Patrick Tedesco is studying Ger man in New York . . . . Also in D.C. is Jennifer Ancker, who after spending the summer out We t hikingand white-water raft ing, works with Beth Timm and Peter Du back at an environmen tal consulting firm. She wrote that Madelyn Meyn was working in New York City but planned to
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teaching in California . . . . After driving cross country, Meredith Brent serried in San Francisco,
\\'here she i· a qual ified mental retardation supen· isor and liv ing with Ad am Rubin, Laura Shmishki s s , Lane Schuck and Liz Kawazoe. J ust around the corner are John J oys and Sabrina Austin. Lindsay Bennigson abo is liv ing in San Franc isco, where , after a summer of lead ing outdoor trips in ew England, she moved to work as a counselor for troubled teens. he \\'rite t h a t L i s s i e Dunn taught in Omaha, eb., and plans ro mm·e to outh Caro l ina and that Hilary Anderson is working for an energy consen·a t ion firm in Cambridge, Mas . Chad Bauld, who rec�ntly moved back to Nova Scotia after being i n the States for seven years, is taking classes and work ing at the Royal Bank of Canada . . . . Scott Galson is working at WEFA in New York . . . . Kerry Knudson is teaching Engl ish and coaching ba ketball at a private high school in Connecticut . . . . J oh n Dun bar ha returned tO his alma mater, Vermont Academy, to teach math and science and coach the c ro s country team . . . . Brian S c h w e g l e r i s a t tend i ng grad c hool a t the U n i vers i ty of
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Chi cago . . . . Le a h B a bco ck i working <J> a legal as:,i,tanr at Bank of Bo:,ton anJ l i nng \\' ith Andy Vernon and Chris Loh man . . . . Stephanie Brewster i · a staff as·istant for the enate En,· ironment and Puhlic Works Commi ttee. he write that Erin Mansur is also working in D.C. and that Kristen Fowler i:, work ing a t H a rv a rd U n i ,· e rs i t y . . . . Nicole Clavette i s liv ing and working in Portland, Mame. In the Peace Corrs are Tuck E v a n s i n K y rghy:s tan, J o h n Costenbader in M a l i and Carrie Miller in Madagascar. . . . Jason Reifler is inte rn i ng w i th the Democratic National Committee in D.C. . . . I am a legal assistan t with Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in D.C. and l ive \\' ith Stephanie Pennix, who, alono w i th J enni fer Merrick, is a legal assistant at A rnold & Porter . . . . In the D.C. area are Mike Kaplan, a legal as istant, Rachel Kondon, Vir
"·orking m the 1' his,achu,ew, rare Lahoratnry Institute, Kath ryn Cosgrove, who i::. a re.;; e arch a' ·i tam at the Fecleral Re,en·e in Bosr<m , J ulie Rent:, \\'ho alnng with Ch ris Fortune and Dhumal Aturaliye i ·tudyin11 engineer ing at Dartmouth, C . J . ] ust, who is ll'nrk inu in Pnrtlancl, M a i ne, and Sarah Bohlinger, who i' \\'Orking in D.C. . . . J e se Sha piro is a legal a ·sistant 111 Greens boro, N . C . . . . Li: G ra u p n e r teache: biology in T e x a � . . . . Missy Smith an.cl Debbie Butler, who is l i ,· ing with !all' ·c hool student Emily Fantasia, are do ing City Year in Boston . . . . Ben Damon is a computer con-ultant in Bo-ron . . . . Steve Davis is working with his father's in ur ance company i n eedham, Ma s . . . . Plea e keep u a l l up + dated 1
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Roderick E. Farnham '3 1 , a personnel director for Great Northern Paper Company and Colby emeritus trustee, died December 2 in Bangor, Maine, at 85. He was born in Brownville Junc tion, Maine, and attended schools in the area. As a youngster he worked for the Canadian Pacific Rai !road and later worked in what is now Baxter tate Park, guiding climbers up Mt. Katahdin. He was a history major at Colby and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. From 1968 to 1 976 he erved three tenns in the Maine House of Representatives, where he in troduced the tate law requiring hunter to wear blaze orange. For many years before his retire ment in 1 972 he was a lobbyi t and personnel director for Great Northern Paper Co. i.n the company's Woodlands Department. His er vice to the College was lifelong and devoted. He was an alumni trustee from 1 959 to 1 965, chair of the Alumni Council and president of the SO-plus club. For his many year of superb work as class agent he received the G. Cecil Goddard Award, the highest recognition given by the College to its class agents. The Colby Brick awarded to him and hi wife of 57 years, Margaret Davis Farnham ' 28, cited "one of Colby' great team ." He erved several local organization as well, including the Hampden school board, water commission, conservation committee, library board, historical society and Kiwanis Club. H is brother Albion L. Farnham ' 3 5 predeceased him. Survivors include hi wife, h is stepson, Alden C. Sprague J r. ' 5 3 , a son, three daughters, including Patricia Farnham Russell '62 and M. Jane Fam.ham Rabeni '66, two brother , including Raymond W. Farnham '36, a nephew, Raymond W. FarnhamJr. '67, 1 1 grandchildren, including Jeffrey Russell '87, Timothy Farnham '9 1 and Margaret Rus ell '92 , and a great-grandson.
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Allen C. Hodgkins ' 2 3 , a dentist, died October 5 i.n Ellsworth, Maine. He was 9 5 . He was born in Eastport, Maine, and after Colby graduated from the Harvard chool of Dental Medicine. He practiced dentistry in Waterville until 1 948, when he was commissioned senior dental sur geon with the U.S. Public Health Service and served in Alaska for two year . ubsequently he lived in Lamoine, Maine. He was town selectman and assessor for 14 years and served on the planning board and the school building committee. His wife, Leurene, and several nieces and nephews survive.
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Clyde E. Ri ley ' 2 7 , a teacher, died J uly 9 in Worcester, Mass., at 89. He was born and educated in Bridgton, Maine, and majored in geology and education at the College. After Colby he earned a master's degree in educa tion from the Univer ity of Ma ine. He wa a member of Theta Kappa Nu fraternity and Xi Epsilon Mu professional fraternity. He began his career at Ea t Boothbay H igh School in Maine and was a science teacher at Westboro H igh School in Ma sachusetts for 40 years, retiring in 1 969. He was the recipient of two National cience Foundation grants for teach ers and attended several N F insti tutes. He was a Shriner and a Ma on. Hi brother Arthur B. Riley ' 1 6 and niece Virginia Coggins Eilertson ' 5 5 also attended the College. He is survived by his wife, Josephine, his niece, two nephews and grandnephew and grandniece .
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Ava France Dodge Barton '28, a teacher and c ivil ervant, d ied J uly 3 in Atlanta, Ga. She was 89. Born in Newcastle, Ma ine , she gradu ated from Lincoln Academy. At Colby she majored in French, was a member of Phi Mu, Kappa Alpha and the G lee Club and played softbal l, field hockey and volleyball. She taught at Lincoln Academy and in the Wiscasset, Maine, schools, and later was employed by the Office of Price Administra tion in Damariscotta and the Selective Ser vice in various Maine communitie . She leaves a son, Charle , three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
MARGARET MCCA M E R R I L L ·3 1 Margaret McCan.n Merrill '3 1 , a homemaker, died September 25 in Skowhegan, Maine, at 5 . She was born i n Waterville and graduated from Waterville High School. She was an English major at Colby, and after graduating she taught at the Good Will-H inckley School and was a bookkeeper at Waterville's Thayer Ho pita!. She married Edward N . Merrill II in 1 938 and was a homemaker and mother. She is survived by a daughter, usan Blaisdell, a grandson, two great-grandchildren and two cousins.
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Omega fraterni ty and an editor of the news paper. After Colby , he attended Harvard University and Boston University and be came a sales representative for the LG. Balfour Company. After retirement he l i ved in Seminole, Fla.
R U T H VOS E JANES '33 Ruth Margaret Vose J ane ' 3 3 , a longtime Red Cross employee and volunteer, died April 2 in R idley Park, Pa. , at 82. She grew up in Caribou, Maine, and prepared for Colby at Caribou High School. At Colby she wa a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and belonged to a number of clubs, including the YWCA, Aroostook Club, International Re lations Club and Engli h Club. She was vice pre ident of the j unior cla , chair of Fo ter House and Mary Low Hall and a member of the Health League, and she played basketball and peedball. She worked in the Works Progre Administration and the State of Maine after graduation, and married her hus band, George N . J anes, at the outbreak of World War I I . During the war he went to work for the American Red Cros , an associa tion that continued until 1 992, when she retired as a social worker in charge of ervice to m i l itary families. Predeceased by her hu band, she is survived by three son , a brother, Thomas Vose ' 3 9 , a s ister, M ary Vose McG i l l icuddy '29, and seven grandchildren.
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Muriel Hallett Kennedy ' 3 3 , a homemaker, d ied J uly 1 1 in Westport, Conn., at 82. A French major at the College, she was born in Houlton, Maine, and attended R icker Junior College. At Colby she was a memberofSigma Kappa sorority and a Latin major. After Colby he taught in the Houlton and Hodgton, Maine, schools from 1 934 to 1 943, then worked at the Andover Newton Theological eminary in Massachusetts until 1 94 5 . She raised her family, then earned a master's de gree from Fairfield University at age 60. he was a member of the Westport Woman's Club and the Order of the Ea tern Star. Her hus band, The Rev. Dana Kennedy, urvives, a do a son and three grandsons.
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Charles M. Tyson '33, a self-employed business man, died February 25 in Clinton, N .C., at 84. He was born in Bangor, Maine, and followed his
brother, Forrest C. Tyson ' 3 2 , to Colby. After graduating from the College, where he wa a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, he became a wholesale clerk for the tandard Oil Company of N .Y. and a department head for Montgomery Ward. In 1 943 he enli red in the U.S. Naval Re erve, eventually earning the rank oflieutenant. He later became a partner at Tire ales and Service in Clinton. He lived in Clinton with hi wife, Loui e.
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D O R O T H Y WAS H B U R P O L L E Y '35 Dorothy Wa hburn Polley ' 3 5 , a homemaker, died in Concord, N . H . , on March 1 6. he was 80. Born and educated in We tbrook, Maine, at Colby he wa active in Delta Delta Delta orority, the German Club, Student League and Health League and played field hockey, volleyball and speedball. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Fre hman cholarship Prize and the German Prize. Af ter Colby she taught in Waldoboro, Maine, and wa an office worker in Framingham, Ma s . , and Chicago. She was a volunteer in the Nashua PTA and G irl Scouts and the New Hampshire Historical ociety. Prede cea ed by her husband and a on, David Polley '64, she is urvived by a daughter, Linda Mock, and three granddaughters.
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Donald P. Robitaille '3 5 , a customs inspector, died J une 1 in Waterville, Maine, at 86. He was born in Waterville and prepared for Colby at St. J ohn's Academy in Danvers, Mass. At the College he wa a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and participated in hockey, track, interfraternity baseball and the Mys tics. He served in the U . S . N avy in World
War I I , and was a cu tom inspector for the U . S . Immigration Service for 3 2 years, retir ing in 1 97 1 . H is wife, Jeannette, survive , along with several nieces and nephews.
ATA L I E G I L L E Y R E EV E S '36 Natalie G illey Reeve '36, a bookkeeper, died on June 3 at 79. he was born in Melrose, Mass . , and graduated from Wayland High School. At Colby she was a member of the YWCA and Chi Omega sorority. After gradu ation she tocik bu ine s courses at Boston Uni versity and worked as an analyst for Lever Brothersfrom 1 939 to 1 94 5 . She marriedRalph Reeve in 1 945 and reared three sons. he was employed as principal bookkeeper at Montclair State College in New Jersey and was acti\·e in the Montclair Women's Guild and Women's Club and in her church. Predeceased by her husband and one son, she is urvived by two sons and several grandchildren.
B A R B A R A DAY STA L LA R D ·36 Barbara Day tallard ' 3 6 , a church secretary, d ied in Montclair, N .J . , on April 22 at 79. She was born in Fairfield, Maine, and educated at Lawrence High School, where she was a mem ber of the National Honor ociety. She wa ecretary for the Watchung Congregational Church in Montc lair from 1 9 5 7 until her retirement in 1 97 7 . She was predeceased by her husband, Bernard Stal lard ' 3 7, and is urvi ed by a daughter, Joanna Morrow, and two grandchildren.
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Jane Tarbell Brown '37, a teacher, writer and homemaker, died August 28 in Troy, N.Y., at 7 . Born and educated in Smyrna Mills, Maine, he followed her father, Frank W. Tarbell '04, to Colby. At the College she majored in English and was an officer of the Aroo took Club and the Art Club. After Colby she attended the University of Maine for postgraduate work, and she taught English at a number of schools, including Ren salaer Polytechnic Institute. An interest in poetry ignited by her Colby com mencement speaker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, led her to write ver e for most of her life. She published a volume of her poems, Two Crows: Joy ! , at age 59- he kidded that the publication "turned me overnight into almo t the mo t celebrated woman in Cropseyville [N.Y.]" and was in demand for poetry workshops and library reading . he also taught a writing work shop at the Troy enior Citizens Center. She i survived by her husband of46 years, Wentworth, two sons and five grandchildren.
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G eorge N . B u r t ' 3 7 , an insurance execu tive, d i e d May 5 in Prov idence, R . I . H e wa 80. Born i n Superior, W i s . , he grew up in
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Earle E. Gla:ier '40, a long-time resident of central Maine, died August 2 2 in Pittsfield, Maine. He wa 7 . Born in Fairfield, he was educated at Lawrence H igh School and Coburn Clas ical Institute. After Colby he worked for the Keyes Fibre Company in Fairfield for 25 year and wa a member of the Oddfellow of Waterville and the Rebekah Lodge. An accompli hed trumpet player, he played in bands and at churches; he also enjoyed square dancing. He i urvived by h is wife, Dorothy, a son, a daughter, two step sons, two stepdaughters, grandchildren, niece and nephews.
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Virgil J. Hinckley '40, a retired teacher, d ied in York, Maine, on May 20. He '"·as 86. Born in Blue H ill, Maine, he prepared for Colby at George Steven Academy. At the College he majored in mathematics, ran track, was a memberofDelta Upsilon fraternity and Kappa Ph i Kappa academic society and played intra mural sports. He recei\·ed a master's degree in education from the Univer ity of Maine and served a principal in everal Maine chool systems, including Danforth, Richmond and Biddeford. He retired in 19 7 1 after 1 2 years as a teacher at Traip Academy in Kittery. He i survived by hi wife, Gertrude, five daugh ters, including Wanda Hinckley Brill ' 7 5 , nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two sister .
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Doris A. Ru ell '40 died December 1 7 , 1 994, at 7 7 . She prepared for Colby at Dedham High School in Massachusetts. At the College he majored in English, was a member of the Stu dent Christian Peace Committee, Student Christian A ociation Cabinet, Library Asso c iates, International Relation Club, the French and German club and the Arts Club. After graduation she worked in a variety of jobs, including teaching in rural school in Maine, working at the Bendix Aviation Corp. during World War I I and ervingas an English in tructor at ortheastern Univer ity and as a foster parent in Brighton, Mass. In later years
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Sarah Fussell Cobb '42, a teacher and librar ian, died March 24 in Brookline, Mass., at 74. She was born in Swarthmore, Pa. , and gradu ated from Swarthmore High chooL She taught school in Windsor, Conn., and Duxbury, Mass., and served as children's librarian for Braintree, Mass., town librarian for Rockland, Mass . , and school librarian for Whitman- Hanson Re gional H igh School. She is survived by her husband, A. Spencer Cobb '42 , her sister, Catherine P. Fussell '4 1 , four children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her sister- in-law, Kathryn Cobb Kimball Quinn '36.
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Paul Abram on '43 , a writer and photogra pher, died on J uly 30. He was 76. He was born in New York City and prepared for college at Che hire Academy in Connect icut. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I I , then studied phorography and began writing and taking photographs for publication. Two de cades ago he and his wife, Florence, retired to Sarasota, Fla., where he became a collector of v iol ins. Besides his wife, he i survived by two children and two grandchildren.
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Pauline Seekins Blair '44, a painter, commu n i ty volunteer and homemaker, d ied Sep tember 2 6 in Dover, N . H . , at 73. She was born and educated i n Norwood, Mass., and left Colby after her freshman year to marry. During World War II she worked at Bendix Aviation in Massachusetts and drove an am bulance for the Red Cross Motor Corps in Massachusetts and New York. She reared a family and, in 1 976, began painting in o ils, winning local prizes for her work. She was an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts and G irl Scouts, the Red Cross, church groups and children's musical programs. Her hus band, B i l l , surv ives her, as do two sons, in cluding David Blair '69, a daughterand several grandch i ldren. She wa predeceased by a daughter.
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Peter S. Kouchalakos '44, a teacher, coach and school administrator, died August 7 in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 7 5 . Born and reared in Lowell, Mass., he was an outstanding high school athlete at Lowell High School and at Bridgton Academy in Maine. H is Colby education was interrupted by service in World War II; he served as a platoon sergeant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and earned several decora tions, including the Bronze Star. He graduated
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from the University of M iami, where, as he had at Colby, he played varsity football and base ball. He taught and served as an administrator in the Dade County chools in Florida, retiring in 1 979 after 32 years. In 1 992 he was elected to the Lowell High School Athletic Hall of Fame. He i urvived by his wife, Penelope, two son , a daughter, four brothers and a sister.
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Hubert E. Smith '46, a technical writer, died August 6 in Derry, N . H . He was 7 3 . Born in Lynn, Mass., he was reared in Saugus and graduated from augus H igh School. He al o attended Kents Hill School in Maine before enrol ling at Colby. He served as a pharmacist's mate in the U.S. Navy during World War I I , then attended the Un iversity o f Massachu setts. He worked for the New Jersey Depart ment of Health, General Electric and two Ma achusetts companies before being re called to Navy duty in 1 9 50. For more than 28 years he was a technical writer for Raytheon in North Andover, Mass., retiring in 1 984. urvivors include h is wife, Eleanor, three sons, a daughter, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Jacqueline M. A llen '48, a lab technician, died April 16 in Bridgton, Maine, at 67. She was born in Bethel, Maine, and graduated from Fryeburg Academy. At Colby she was a mem ber of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the Glee Club and the Outing Club. After her graduation from the College, she moved to Boston and worked as a lab technician at M . LT. and for Massachusetts General Hospital. She also worked as a research assistant at Boston Uni versity Medical School. She is survived by her nephew, David Hodgdon of Conway, N . H .
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John "Jack" Brown '49, a labor relations direc tor, died J une 3 in Coming, N.Y. A native of Chelsea, Mass., he was a graduate of Chelsea High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1 942 and was d ischarged with the rank of captain in 1 94 5 . He also attained the rank of lieutenant in the Air Force Reserves. After hi graduation from the College, he was director of personnel and public relations for the C.F. Hathaway Co. in Waterville, Maine. In 1 959, he assumed the same position at the J .W. Greer Co. in Wilmington, Mass. In 1 96 5 he became the manager of labor relations for the Combustion Engineering Corp. in Chatta nooga, Tenn., and in 1 967 he became the corporate director of industrial relation for SW Industries Inc. in Newton, Mass. In 1 982 he retired from his position as director oflabor relations at SKF Industries in Hornell, N .Y. After his retirement, he was a substitute teacher in the Hornell City School System, a member
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Horton W. Emerson J r. '49 d ied Augu t 1 2 , 1 994, a t 74. H e was born i n Blue Hill, Maine, and graduated from George Stevens Acad emy there. In 1 94 3, he was enl isted in the U .S. Marine Corps and served in World War I I . After Colby he received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1 9 5 7 and became a professor of h is tory at Gorham State College. He is survived by two daughters and a son.
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J ohn H. Ives '49, an insurance salesman, died March 29 in Schenectady, N.Y., at 70. He served in Europe in World War II, and at Colby he worked on the Echo and was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Outing Club. After college he was employed by the Insurance Company of North America and, later, by Atlantic Mutual. He was an i nsurance salesman at the Hequemburg Agency in Schenectady for 30 years. He was a member and president of the East G lenville Volunteer Fire Company and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ameri can Legion. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, a son, two daughters, a brother, a sister and five grandchildren.
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Charles R. Woodman '49, an accountant, died May 27 in Augusta, Maine, at 76. He was born in Rumford, Maine, and attended Au gusta schools. He served in the Army during World War II, received the Bronze Star and retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. During h i career as a elf-employed accountant he also served as town manager of Chelsea, Richmond and Mexico, Maine. He is survived by two sons, one daughter, two brothers, three si ters and two grandchildren. He was predecea ed by his wife, Mary.
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John McSweeny '50, an athletic director and legislator, died March 18 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, at 7 1 . He was born in Saco, Maine, and was on the all-state football team while at Thornton Academy. After high school he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining the rank of sergeant. At Colby he played football and was a member of Phi Delta Theta frater n i ty. He received his ma ter' degree in history and government from the U niversity of Maine in 1 969. After graduating from Colby, he be gan his teaching and coaching career at differ ent schools in southern Maine. In 1 9 5 3 he
became a teacher, coach and athletic director at Old Orchard Beach H igh School, where he worked until 19 2 . In 1 97 1 , the school hon ored him by naming the new gymnasium the John McSweeny Memorial Gymnasium. After his retirement, he was elected to the state legislature, where he served until 1 990. For many year he delivered Meals on Wheel to the elderly in his community and was a mem ber of St. Margaret's Parish. He is survived by two sisters and was predecea ed by two broth ers and a sister.
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Marilyn Scott Allen ' 5 1 , a banker, d ied J une 14 in Prague, The Czech Republic. She was 65. She was born in Terre Haute, Ind . , where she spent much of her life. She attended St. Mary-of-the-Woods College and received her bachelor's degree at Colby, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Glee Club. She was an assistant vice presi dent of Terre Haute First National Bank, retiring in January 1 99 5 . She was a member of the St. Benedict Catholic Church and served on the boards of Hospice of the Wabash Valley, Catholic Charities of Terre Haute , Visiting Nurses' Association of the Waba h Valley and the YWCA. She was predecea ed by her husband and a daughter and is survived by two daughters, three sons, her mother, a sister, two brothers, nieces and nephews.
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Robert L. Swain '52, an insurance executive, died June 8 in Augusta, Maine, at 72. He was born i n Swampscott, Mass . , and graduated from local schools. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and majored in English at the College. He was associated for many years with the Macomber, Farr and Whitten insurance firm in Augusta and was involved in many civic organization , includ ing youth baseball and hockey. He is survived by his wife, E ileen, three daughters, three sons, grandchildren, a brother and sister and several nieces and nephews.
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FolkertO. Belzer ' S 3 , a leading transplant den tist, died on August 6 in Madison, Wis., at 64. He was born in Seerabaja, Indonesia, and came to the United States in 1 95 1 , becoming a U.S. citizen in 1 956. At the College he majored in chemistry and was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He earned a master's degree and an M.D. from Boston University. His long aca demic career included posts at the University of Oregon, the University of California in San Francisco, where he was chief of transplant service, and the University ofWisconsin, where he was chair of the surgery department from 1964 until his retirement last July. He special ized in kidney transplantation and was respon-
sible for major advances in the field. In the 1 960s he developed technology that allowed organs to be kept viable for everal day before transplant, a process he refined for several years. In 1 987 he andJames Southard, a biochemist at the university, developed "UW Solution," a fluid that can keep organs viable for 1 8-30 hours and helps prevent transplant rejection. In April 1 99 5 he received the Medallion for cientific Achievement from the American Surgical As sociation, only the 1 2 th such award in the as ociation's 1 1 7-year history. Last year he also received the first Pioneer Award from the American Society of Tran plant Surgeon . He i survived by his wife, Marion, a daughter and three sons.
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Randall L. Holden '65, a professorof music, died May 17 in Louisville, Ky. , at S l. He was born in Bronxville, N.Y., and graduated from Scarsdale High School. After receiving his B.A. from Colby, he received his M.A. in music history from the Univer ity of Connecticut and his M.M. and D.M.A. in opera production at the University of Washington. He also attended U.C.L.A.'s Arts Administration Program in 1 970-7 1 . He was a professor of music and direc tor of admis ions in the School of Music at the University of Louisville. He was a production manager for the Kentucky Opera, president of the National Opera Association and a member of the board of Ars Femina. Earlier in his career, he was an administrator and teacher at Arizona State University and worked for the Seattle Opera Association and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. He is urvived by his wife, Pamela Harris Holden '66, a brother, and cou ins Jane Holden Huerta '60, Juan Huerta '92 and Jon Huerta '95 .
LO R NA W R I G HT D A L E ' 6 6 Loma Wright Dale '66, a teacher, died M a y 1 3 i n Lewiston, Maine. She was 5 0 . She was born in Farmingron, Maine, and graduated from jay High School. A Spani h major at Colby, she tudied at the University of Mexico City. After graduation from the College she taught lan guages at Pinkerton Academy in New Hamphire and in Chicago, eventually becoming a sub titute teacher in the Lewiston school sy tern. She was a band musician and a pianist. Her father, Philip Wright, survives her, as do a sister, two nieces and many other relative .
GEORGE S H E R I DAN D UKES '66 George Sheridan Dukes '66 died J uly 7 in Presc o t t , Ariz . , a t S O . H e was born i n H a c k e n s a c k , N .J . , and graduated from Cranford High School in Cranford, N .J . He was married for 2 8 years to Joan Manegold Dukes '66, who survives him along with his mother and two sisters.
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Anthony S. Giles ' 6 6 died December 1 5 , 1 994, in M a rb l e h e a d , Ma s . , a t S 1 . Born tn Marblehead, he graduated from Marblehead High School. After graduating from the Col lege with a major in English, he received hi master's and Ph.D. from yracu e University and became a profe or of speech at the Univer sity of New Hampshire's Paul Arts Center. He is survived by two sons and a granddaughter.
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Robert N. Levine ' 7 3 , a consultant to na tional l i teracy campaign and a volunteer A lDS care worker, died May 28, 1 994, in New York City at 4 2 . He was born in Hart ford, Conn . , and educated in We t Hartford schools. At Colby he majored in p ychology, and after graduating he attended Hartt Col lege of Music. In the 1 980s and 1 990s he was a consultant to several outstanding l iteracy campaigns, including the Readasaurus pro gram and ABC Television'- Project Li teracy U .S. He also was a volunteer with God's Love We Deliver, a group that delivers meals to homebound person with AIDS. He is sur vived by his mother, Ruth Levine, a brother, a niece and a nephew. A cousin, Paul Feldman ' 3 4 , also attended the College.
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Archille Henri Biron, emeritus professor of modem languages, died December 6 at his home in Waterv i l le, Maine, at 84. Born in Pittsfield, Mass. , he was a 1 93 2 graduate of Clark University, earned a diploma from the Institute De Phonetique at the University of Pari in 1 93 7 and, in 1 940, earned a ma ter' degree from Middlebury College. During World War II he served with the U.S. Army in France. H e taught at the Riverdale Coun try School in New York City for IO years before joining the faculty of Rutgers Univer sity, where he taught from 1 946 until 1 950, when he directed the Colby-Swarthmore Summer School of Language and joined the Colby faculty as an instructor. He was named assistant professor in 1 9 5 3 , associate profesor in 1 96 5 and full profes or in 1 97 3 and was granted emeritu status following his retire ment in 1 9 7 7 . A leader in developing Colby's first foreign language programs abroad, he was particularly interested in 1 9th-century French literature, especially the works of Balzac. He also was a supporter of the Colby library and the Colby Friends of Art. With his wife, Dorothy, he traveled exten ively in Europe, North Africa and Canada, and a scholarship fund in honor of the Birons is to be established at the College for the scholar ship upport of Colby student wishing to study in France. Besides his wife of 5 5 years, he is survived by a brother and sister-in-law and a nephew.
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of national and state rol i t ics,
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for more than an hour as the NBC Nig/idy News c a m e ra c rew sets up in Dean of Adm issions
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House offic e , one of the few on campus that could accommo date the needs of a network news crew. Ir's l unchtime, and he's ett led for a canned Diet Coke. W h i l e w a i t i ng he's sat at Beverage's conference table talking to some bystanders about every t h i ng from a workshop he's d o i ng for M a ine broadcasters on how to cover e lect ions, to the fact that he'll be meeting w i t h the last c lass of the semester l a ter t h i s after noon, to his bel ief that "everyone i n Rhode I s - l and" his home state-"knows everyone e ls e . " L i ke c lowns at a Shriner c ircus, the crew produces improbable amounts of equipment from a few boxes l ights, cameras, reflectors, black
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insightfu l ly about most aspect
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up.
coming to Washington next
c loth to cover t h e w i ndow- and enough cable to strangle K i ng
wee k , " Corrado says. '' I ' l l get
Kong. But after t a l k ing to
my share of no snow then . " I fi l l already knows that
dozens of print and broadcast reporter and serv ing for several
Corrado will be a t the N at ional
years as a pol i t i c a l analyst for a
P rt>s s Club presenting the
Bangor televis ion stat ion on
findings of the 20th Century
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and patient. " I know how these
want to know what your
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concl usions are , " she says with a laugh, not i ng that the media
have brought some work to do . "
often are c r i t i c ized for their
Once everything i prepared,
debate coverage.
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captain's chair with Beverage's desk and computer as backdrop.
source among top j o urna l i s t s ,
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h im over a speaker phone . It i s
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they talk about snow. Maine is
and Congress ional b ids
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inc l ud ing the use of the I nternet in campa ign ing and fund raising and the rise and fall of candidacies. Newspaper stories quot ing Corrado flow to Colby from a l l over the country, many the result of long telephone in terviews he fields during the evenings at home. I n terv i ew over, Ifi l l thanks Corrado and the camera c rew, tells Corrado she ' l l give h i m a c a l l once she knows when the story w i l l air and hangs up. As the crew packs up Corrado w a i ts again-this t i me to go outside and walk around campus a b i t for the camera. "You're rea l l y good at this, Tony," the camera operator says , going on to describe aca demics he's fi lmed who forget to look at the camera or who ponder the i r answers too long. "One th ing I've learned," Corrado says, "on TV, a three second pause and you're dead."+
By the time you arrive for reunion, this sign will make more sense . Right now we're deep in that test of character known a a Maine winter. But by June, the lakes and ocean will parkle again, and this sign will welcome you back for a weekend of fun and friendships renewed. Check this issue for a schedule of events, day trips, and children's programs planned for you and your family from J une 5�9, 1 996. For more information, call the reunion hotline, 207 �87 2 � 3 1 90. And tuck a j acket in your bag, ju t in case . It's cooler on Mayflower Hill.
• Reunion Weekend IJ June 5 - 9 , 1 9 9 6